How has the media affected your perceptions of the reality of criminal investigations?

It is my peronal opinion that the media has affected our perceptions of the reality of criminal investigations. The media is more likely to glamorize the deatails of the case. It is also my opinion that the media can have positive and negative impacts. One of the positive impacts is as follows:
1.The public does learn that crime is everywhere and it does not matter if you are rich or if you are poor. I think that some people who are of a more wealthy status don't always believe that someone else of their statute could be capable of commiting crime.
One of the negative impacts that the media has is as follows:
1.) The media always seems to bring out first any mishaps. For example: Lack of evidence, evidence that has been brought to light after the fact by witnesses etc;
When the media does this, especially before the people who are working on the case, I feel that they are giving the offender a chance to escape since the new evidence has come into play.