And advertising works. It's why companies pay millions of dollars for a few minutes on prime time, or to put a can of Pepsi on the a movie screen for 8 seconds.
The glorification of killing and sexually abusing children is an advertisement to misfits to go after our youngest and most innocent. And Hollyweird is doing it now. They're making the ads to have your children raped next... Ads in the forms of jokes, movies, and TV edgy crap. And the stuff is on the screen a lot longer than 8 seconds...
My first reaction to this story was that I didn't like them sensationalizing the father's agony. It's not newsworthy what his anguish sounded like. That's thrown in there, as you say, for entertainment.