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In article <1993Jan19.231940.19404@athena.mit.edu> jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr) writes:

   I hear a lot in the local news recently about domestic violence cases
   (ex-boyfriend stalks and kills former lover, and similar incidents).  Why is
   there such an increase in news reports?  Has there been an increase in this
   sort of crime, or did the media recently decide this was a good thing to
   report?

Probably some of both, but there is a third factor that you are
leaving out: more of these crimes are considered by people to be
crimes, and are reported at all, than formerly.  The news usually
cannot report on a wife-beating if neither the wife nor anyone else
talks about the incident.  (Here I'm not speaking of murders, of
course; it's not clear whether you are referring only to murders, or
to violence in general.  I think the murders would have been likely to
get coverage, at least if the victims are middle-class white people,
any time over the last many decades.)