Trial TV

During some thoughts about the big picture of celebrity justice in the aftermath of the Michael Jackson trial, Mark Evanier has some interesting comments about “how unbelievably rotten the news coverage of something like this is.”

You may or may not agree with the verdict but clearly those jurors, like the ones in the Robert Blake case and maybe a few others, did not experience the trial that was described to us by the folks covering it. It's like the story of the blind men all trying to describe an elephant except in this case, you have blind reporters and most of them had their heads up the elephant's ass.

I didn’t follow either of these trials any more closely than I had to, but instead of marveling over how the jurors could possibly reach such nonsensical verdicts, maybe we should turn our attention to how we were led to believe they’d decide anything else? Could it have anything to do with the media? I know, it’s a reach--they’re doing such a sterling job of covering everything else.