Dan Abrams, one of my favorite TV personalities (okay, I admit, I may have a small celebrity crush …) has a blog entry about the media as the scapegoat for defense lawyers. It’s so laughably common now. “My client didn’t kill that woman! He was … at church! Yeah! The media made him into a bad guy! Not all that damning evidence they have a right to report!”
The media is not perfect. It’s biased, it’s inaccurate, it’s shaded by government and advertising … but it can also manage to get some things right. It’s not in the business of condemning innocent people for sport. “Media bias” cannot become a reasonable defense.
February 7th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
“It’s not in the business of condemning innocent people for sport.”
Not unless one is talking about Fox news anyway
February 8th, 2006 at 9:39 am
A small celebrity crush?!?