Casey Anthony Coverage: Less Dangerous Than Political Reporting

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

Yes. Wall to wall Casey, while if you listened very closely you could hear the crickets chirping “Gunrunner, Gunrunner.”

Okay, over two years ago I said to a lot of people, a family should pull a fast one on the media and police.

Could you imagine if a family sends off one of their kids to another family member or friend for say 6 months and somehow the media or say the CPS got an anonymous tip that the child has disappeared? Then when the inevitable media and police response to this would be just like what happened here, a media and police circus, the family states they want their privacy and they do not have to answer any questions.

This would go on for months and then of course we would have a politician attempting to pass legislation like has happened here, media circus, CPS taking any other kids, police investigations, etc, etc, etc.

Then, after the uproar is at it’s peak, the child is brought back.

Book deals, movie deals, etc etc etc.

This country is obsessed with reality tv. If it is basic “politics” most will not pay attention. However, start talking endlessly about the pregnant teenage daughter of the running VP or the twittering of Weiners weiner and they have a broad captive audience. Welcome to the dumbing down of America.

As much as I agree on the broader point Dan is making,I really feel like he’s giving Grace a pass here.

The woman acted like judge and jury,and made sure everyone knew her opinion was the only right one to have.
She wasn’t “reporting” at all,she was calling a girl a slut, and she was cheerleading for the death penalty on National TV.

The woman is clearly an Evil Beotch in my opinion,I think this parody here really says it all for me…

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/203fbffd72/nancy-grace-reacts-to-the-casey-anthony-verdict?playlist=featured_videos

But like I said, I agree with the rest of the post.

BoomShakalaka said:
The woman acted like judge and jury,and made sure everyone knew her opinion was the only right one to have.
She wasn’t “reporting” at all,she was calling a girl a slut, and she was cheerleading for the death penalty on National TV.

The people that watch Nancy Grace know what to expect. That is what she does. She is like a tabloid court tv show. She is an attorney so she knows the law. Even before all the hype, I think most rational people believed that Casey Anthony was guilty.

I agree that the media’s political coverage is far more dangerous than any stories about a criminal prosecution.

But let’s get real, and identify the SPECIFIC CAUSES of the corruption:

(1) News sources that devote almost all of their coverage to mudslinging, hit pieces, gotcha and character attacks, while remaining strangely silent on the key news issues that will determine next year’s election — such as the national debt, unemployment, the economy, the war fronts, etc. Let’s call this the ‘MSNBC Syndrome’.

(2) Media outlets that run 10,000 news stories attacking a candidate, yet never report on the candidate’s actual position on these same key issues. Let’s call this the ‘Sarah Palin Media Meltdown Phenomenon’.

(3) A ridiculously imbalanced situation in which every news network (except one) packs their newsroom from top to bottom with progressive liberals who inject bias into story after story, while pretending that their coverage is “straight down the middle.” Let’s call this the ‘CNN Hypocrisy Syndrome’.

(4) A pervasive bias ingrained in the American media in which the vast majority of the nation is silenced — or actually ridiculed and vilified — while only elite Northeast viewpoints are given a media platform. Let’s call this “I’ve Never Spoken to an Actual Tea Partier, but Offer Opinions on them Every Day Phenomenon’.

(5) A general attitude among the mainstream media power brokers that political correctness is more important than honest coverage and open dialogue. Let’s call this the ‘NPR fires Juan Williams to Maintain Political Correctness Syndrome’.

(6) Political discussion shows in which no debate or dialogue ever takes place, and every guest parrots the opinions expressed by the host. Let’s call this the ‘Keith Olbermann Disease’.

(7) A obviously corrupt situation in which every major newspaper in the US (except the Wall Street Journal) is aligned with the same political party. Let’s call this the ‘All the News That Fits Our Ideology Problem’.

and, of course,

(8) The institutionalized dishonesty that prevents media outlets from even admitting — let alone fixing — all the above problems. Let’s call this ‘The Reason Why Sensible People No Longer Trust the Media Explanation’.

“In the end, the media does cater to the desires of its audience.”

I don’t follow that logic. I believe MEDIA pushes the audience into these childish tabloid shows. There is no such thing as Journalism left in this world. It’s all ratings and Media proves the audience are idiots. Turn the channel as Nanny Grace shouts…but you end up turning to just another idiotic shock and awe channel. You can’t just find facts on a subject that 30 commentators try to explain to you what you just heard as fact??, on one or the other political sides. Garbage TV and Paper is all that’s left. We as the audience are smart enough to know the facts presented to a story and don’t need it explained by an air head from whatever outlet. Get back to findiing a story and reporting facts, let the audience decide what they see and hear.

Dear Dan:

Based on this statement:

“Mediaite covers the media so what they cover is what is covered here.”

Please ask your staff to address this:

“This Obama Justice Department reminds me of nothing so much as the Nixon Justice Department,” Hume said on Fox News Sunday. “You have the scent of high-level knowledge of serious wrongdoing and you have the smell of cover-up and I think the stench of cover-up on this gun-running operation is very strong indeed.”

That was a very provacative statement made by a well respected individual in the media world, but mediaite has been completely silent on and indeed has spiked stories related to the obstruction by Holder and how the media has orhas not covered that story.

You want some credibility to this board about serious discussion, you have the opportunity. Perhaps your strong arm is needed to tell TC or Colby to provide an honest write up on fast and furious. The story isn’t going away, but mediaite is looking kind of silly for ignoring it.

How about it Dan? You gonna step up to the plate?

TfT said:
mediaite has been completely silent on and indeed has spiked stories

Not that dealing in facts or reality are your strength, but how could you possibly know what stories have been spiked? Do you know what the word spike means in this context?

What felixw said. Most important to me is how the system finds truth or tries to get as close to it as possible, using independent confirmation (or rejection). That should be a lesson for all journalism and especially the liberal balls with their belles. Latest I heard is that Nancy Grace went into hunger strike. Finding truth in science, justice and journalism should always be our main aim. Not beyond good and evil, but making our own decisions, very well indeed http://constructiverecollection.blogspot.com/2010/01/good-and-bad.html.

felixw said:
But let’s get real, and identify the SPECIFIC CAUSES of the corruption:

Your entire post was spot on.

I like your lead sentence, “I am rarely accurate …” That’s true, especially your book about how women are superior to men.

Ron C. de Weijze said:
What felixw said

2012freedom said:
Your entire post was spot on.

Thanks!

Yes Publius, many have claimed it to be so.

felixw said:
But let’s get real, and identify the SPECIFIC CAUSES of the corruption:

Amen.

Thanks to those who liked my piece and thanks to those who hated it. . . @TfT I am told that a post is in the works on that comment. . .

Dan Abrams wrote, “But there is a far bigger problem here. Many of the most outspoken critics (amateur and professional) of the Anthony coverage are the very same people who relish intensive political coverage. They spend hours upon hours on discussion and analysis of who is up or down–who is running or who is not, and who made the most egregious gaffe that day.”

I salute you Mr. Abrams for your comment.

This is almost exactly what I was thinking when I heard Howard Kurtz and Lauren Ashburn of Ashburn Media railing against what they thought was excessive coverage of the trial and its aftermath.

The media has whipped up the nation into believing Casey is guilty and now the idiots are threatening the jury because they found Casey not guilty. Threatening the jury, do you believe it ? The jury did their duty correctly with the evidence or lack of that was presented to them. The public responds to the media like they did during the Salem witch hunts. Dosen’t anyone think for themselves or question the media anymore ? Thank God the jury wasn’t contaminated or exposed to the media and came to a proper verdict. The public responds to the media like a school of sharks in a feeding frenzy or puppets on a string with no mind of their own. The media planted the seed, nourished it untill many people thought of it as fact. The media will keep this story going as long as they can make money off it, because there are always some idiots that will believe it.

Excellent Dan; thanks for the heads up. I look forward to reading about it. I just learned that one of the families is now suing the US Government because of the ongoing cover-up and obstruction regarding fast and furious. The story is blooming….it is good that mediaite will get in on top of it.

Am I to believe that felix can cite and “identify the SPECIFIC CAUSES of the corruption” and not once mention how Fox News contributes to the corruption?

Need I remind us that Fox has numerous GOP politicoes on its payroll and no virtually no Democrats? If w’ere going to be honest and cite the faults of the MSM, let’s be, ahem, fair and balance, and admist to how the seed to Fox News were sown years ago when the Nixon White House was considering a project called GOP TV in the White House, as reported by Gawker, and when Roger Ailes worked there.

As Moyihan once said, You’re entitled to your own opinion but not your own set of facts.

Dan you’re wrong on this one. 99% of the time politics is not life or death. Nancy Grace was trafficking Death over and over again. For three years her Guilty until proven innocent was the drum beat of her very existence. She worked her viewers up so much that they want a pound of flesh regardless of the outcome. Guilty, Because Nancy Said So. She must die because Nancy Said So. Don’t deny HLN’s rating went way up because of the Guilty drumbeat they were pushing every hour on the hour, every day. Now thank God that 12 people used the lack of evidence and came to a not guilty verdict. But, Nancy can’t let it go. She and her Ilk keep pushing the prosecution case everyday since the verdict. They keep telling their viewers this girl is Guilty of murder, and even how evil the 12 members of the jury are. The Media pushes stories everyday. The public do not get to choose the stories. HLN and their over the top anchors will not stop until someone gets hurt or worse. For that, Nancy Grace has a proven track record in that department. Ms. Duckett died after the Nancy Grace Attack, and The Duke Lacrosse Team was Guilty on her show before they were innocent. Great Track Record. So Dan, You’re dead wrong. Irresponsible Trial Anchors do affect public views in Life or Death, Unlike Politics.

normankelley said:
Am I to believe that felix can cite and “identify the SPECIFIC CAUSES of the corruption” and not once mention how Fox News contributes to the corruption?

Need I remind us that Fox has numerous GOP politicoes on its payroll and no virtually no Democrats? If w’ere going to be honest and cite the faults of the MSM, let’s be, ahem, fair and balance, and admist to how the seed to Fox News were sown years ago when the Nixon White House was considering a project called GOP TV in the White House, as reported by Gawker, and when Roger Ailes worked there.

As Moyihan once said, You’re entitled to your own opinion but not your own set of facts.

Fox News is the only news network that isn’t packed top to bottom with liberal Democrats. So even if it only presented conservative views, Fox would be valuable as the sole dissenting voice in the media. But in fact, Fox brings on guests every evening who disagree and debate the hosts and other guests — presenting a diversity of viewpoints that other networks would do well to emulate.

Of course, all that should be obvious to any impartial person — and is why Fox has a larger audience among independents and moderates than its competitors. In fact, Fox outdraws the competition among every group except ultra-far left progressives, who are opposed to very openness and honest dialogue that Fox stands for. And that speaks for itself.

I think perhaps the reason the general public stayed so glued to their seats was not only how the Casey trial was covered but the subject matter itself. It did matter what the verdict was. I strongly suspect literally at the very least hundreds of thousands of viewers did care. I don’t believe there would of been such an uproar if it didn’t matter. It was literally a matter of life or death or as many saw it good , justice vs evil. Even the new Cayley’s law is the result of this case. Personally imho I think the wording should not be report missing child or children within an hour but the phrase should be as soon as possible. It may be impossible or too much of a hardship to report literally within an hour. Maybe the question is do the popular news stories cater to the public’s interests or does the news reporting produce the public interest or a little bit of both.
I’m thinking too that long before this capital murder trial television’s and for that matter, radio and magazines been divided politically for decades. Look there’s the conversative National Review and the Liberal left wing”the Nation, “Utne Reader” So what else is new. Fox news vs MSNBC. Whatever happened t o plain old objective, unslanted news reporting.
What about all the right and left wing columists out there in what ever media. As far as Mr and Mrs Potato Head are concerned they’re just common tators.

Dan, did you mean to include Nancy Grace, Jane Velez-Mitchell, Greta Von Whatever and Judge Judy when you said women are superior to men?

normankelley said:
Need I remind us that Fox has numerous GOP politicoes on its payroll and no virtually no Democrats?

Come on Norman, you’re not even trying.
Do the names Juan Williams, Bob Beckel, Alan Colmes ring a bell?
Besides, Norman, why should FOX feel an obligation to put more Democrats on their payroll when there are thousands of hard-core Democrats already on the payroll of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WP, etc., etc., etc.?

We just had a 60 year old member of the jury quit her job, and flee for her life from the lynch mob. All in a days work for the instigators.

Dan, Dan, Dan. Please. “In the end, the media does cater to the desires of its audience.” You can’t possibly believe this, can you? While it’s a “which came first, the chicken or the egg?” cultural issue, surely you know that, except for catastrophic weather, the media MAKES the news in many cases. Casey Anthony would not have even been a news item for which you, Dan Abrams, could bask in media exposure were it not for media, while prowling around the vast universe of news feeds, picking up on it and deciding to MAKE it news. “Let’s see, which mother-kills-child story should we blow up today? Ahh, here’s one: pretty mommy in Florida doesn’t report adorable child missing for 30 days. Sounds exploitable…and profitable.”

Stephen King wrote about the Michael Jackson trial: “It’s sickening that it takes a columnist in an entertainment magazine to point out that more than 2,000 newspeople covered the Jackson trial–which is only a few hundred more than the number of American servicemen and women who have died in Iraq. On the same day that crowds gathered in Times Square (and around the world) to learn the fate of [Michael Jackson], another four suicide bombings took place in that tortured, bleeding country. And if you tell me that news doesn’t belong in Entertainment Weekly, I respond by saying Michael Jackson under a black umbrella doesn’t belong on the front page of The New York Times.”

Medialoid (defined as mainstream media infected by tabloid journalism) doesn’t want to confront its complicity in the deterioration of society because then medialoid would have to actually DO something about their dilemma–that is, balancing the First Amendment against the giant megaphone medialoid holds that engages in journalism of personal destruction. They’d have to actually soul search and figure out a way to return medialoid to the days when Walter Cronkite and Bill Moyers were conducting responsible, unbiased, fair and balanced journalism that contributed to the public good.

Dan has a guilty conscience, but rather than lie back and get clobbered he goes on the attack against critics of the Casey Anthony coverage. He figures the best defense is a good offense.

normankelley said:
Need I remind us that Fox has numerous GOP politicoes on its payroll and no virtually no Democrats?

Obviously you haven’t watched Fox very much. By the way? How many Conservatives are on MSNBC? CNN?

If the Dan Abrams who penned this piece is the same Dan Abrams, attorney at law, once famous TV New personality who left TV to become a millionaire teaching corporations how to use the Media to spin reported stories, I’d take his flick of the hand on the seriousness of what is going on with some skepticism. The same Dan Abrams not seen on TV in a while, but who has come out of “retirement” to defend Nancy and convince us to “move along people there is nothing here to see”. Do not get me wrong I am a capitalist, love it, but I am also a parent who is finding increasingly difficult to explain why the people on TV can get away with conduct that exceeds the most vicious of bullying practices, but they and their friends cannot. Impossible to explain why we must be held accountable for our words and actions, but the people on TV do not. .

I disagree that the media’s failures in political coverage are “more dangerous” than the media’s failures in covering sensationalized trials…public trust in media is at an historic low because coverage in general is of poor quality. It doesn’t matter where people are targeted for dehumanization by the current odious 24/7 news cycle–we call suffer the consequences.

You yourself contributed to this sorry state of affairs, Dan. Despite an ostensibly decent education, your motto seems to be the cynical one of our age, “Sell ‘em what they want,” no matter how far down into the gutter you have to wander in order to find it. Someone who regards elevating public discourse and the quality of available information as quaint ideals is no journalist (with or without a capital letter.)

You are just a hack that covers other hacks, really, is that it? Not much to be proud of there.

Dan—Great ! Great ! Great to hear you take on the crazy trial. I saw you on Joy Behard last week and I loved your comment. You wrapped it up in a nutshell….”Jose Baez won this case in spite of himself”. I laughed but it’s really a travesty that it’s true.

The basic coverage is fine but it’s the whipping up a lynch mob frenzy by the likes of Nancy Grace that is despicable.

Catherine Coy said:
Dan, Dan, Dan. Please. “In the end, the media does cater to the desires of its audience.” You can’t possibly believe this, can you? While it’s a “which came first, the chicken or the egg?” cultural issue, surely you know that, except for catastrophic weather, the media MAKES the news in many cases. Casey Anthony would not have even been a news item for which you, Dan Abrams, could bask in media exposure were it not for media, while prowling around the vast universe of news feeds, picking up on it and deciding to MAKE it news. “Let’s see, which mother-kills-child story should we blow up today? Ahh, here’s one: pretty mommy in Florida doesn’t report adorable child missing for 30 days. Sounds exploitable…and profitable.”

Stephen King wrote about the Michael Jackson trial: “It’s sickening that it takes a columnist in an entertainment magazine to point out that more than 2,000 newspeople covered the Jackson trial–which is only a few hundred more than the number of American servicemen and women who have died in Iraq. On the same day that crowds gathered in Times Square (and around the world) to learn the fate of [Michael Jackson], another four suicide bombings took place in that tortured, bleeding country. And if you tell me that news doesn’t belong in Entertainment Weekly, I respond by saying Michael Jackson under a black umbrella doesn’t belong on the front page of The New York Times.”

Medialoid (defined as mainstream media infected by tabloid journalism) doesn’t want to confront its complicity in the deterioration of society because then medialoid would have to actually DO something about their dilemma–that is, balancing the First Amendment against the giant megaphone medialoid holds that engages in journalism of personal destruction. They’d have to actually soul search and figure out a way to return medialoid to the days when Walter Cronkite and Bill Moyers were conducting responsible, unbiased, fair and balanced journalism that contributed to the public good.

Well done. I occasionally complain about this site that its writers present vacuous pablum, and I sometimes consider writing to Dan to say, “Come on, man. Get these chumps in line.”

But then there are moments such as this, when I see how completely and utterly he sets the tone. Oy vey.

Interesting headline that pretty much says it all. “Less dangerous” is not something the public wants to settle for, Mr. Abrams. It’s not about “journalism,” “entertainment,” or even verdicts and whether or not they are accurately arrived at. The judicial system here, even flawed occasionally, is better than the systems in place in other parts of the world where they behead people or stone them without a trial or cut off limbs as punishment.

But it is about a public that is beginning to catch on to the manipulation they are subject to, a public that is fatigued with all the wringing of hands and public service announcements about children and bullying and suicides of young people because they are targeted by peers when the media constitutes the biggest bully on the block.

It is about being MANIPULATED by a media that does not:
Fact check
State the facts
Disseminate unbiased information
Allow the public to form its own conclusions

It’s about the gut feeling that something is fundamentally wrong with crying “off with her head” before even the first day in court. It reminds some of an ancient chant: “Crucify him; crucify him” just because he was guilty in SOME eyes—those on one side of the issue.

It’s about being fed hype and hyperbole night after night until those living in an alternate incestuous reality begin to think it the real world. It’s about sensationalizing and laser-focused commentary and “Breaking News” from only one side of a multi-dimensional court case. Some people do not make the distinction between “allegations” and “fact “and repetition makes it truth within a 24 hour cycle. It’s about pre- judging someone guilty based on carefully selected parts of a story presented in a way that will get the most viewers and ratings.

It’s about dehumanizing real flesh and blood people– celebrities, athletes, politicians, or those made overnight celebrities by circumstance or fate. It’s about dismembering those in the public spectrum for blood sport, ridicule, sophomoric entertainment or for profit — cash.

A sleeping giant has been awakened. The public senses it; people intuitively know that something is very, very wrong. No amount of defending darkness will ever turn it into light. And the light has only begun to shine on the morass that has become mainstream. I say keep the light on the subject. Turn it up brighter! Reveal the darkest corners of an industry become a machine that devours everything in view only to feed itself.

People have begun the call for dignity and decency. It stands to reason you would tremble in fear. Those who refuse to hear will go the way of “News of the World.” So don’t try to bully the public or dumb them down. They are awake now. And try to remember: there is a population that models the behavior they observe in adults. They are called children. And just in case you didn’t know—they are watching.

Dan, my Dad was a high profile criminal lawyer on Park Avenue, I worked in a SEC firm for 4 years and I worked as a Licensed New York Real Estate Broker for 20 years. While I am not nearly as credible as you are in analyzing the Casey Anthony trial, I will give it a try.You are right and I fully expect and agree that the media will run with these high profile trials, I am more disappointed at hearing the American people second guessing the verdict and being so vehement about Casey being acquitted. The media has to make money and raise ratings and things Casey is a business deal. Although we know that all the threats and blasphemy and hatred will not change a thing, I really wish that people realize that they were not upfront in the courtroom. This was a substantially circumstantial case, we usually do not execute females and Casey was never pinned at the scene of the crime. Her flitting and partying to amateur sleuths in error does not in anyway implicate her beyond a shadow of a doubt. People get breakdowns, amnesia, depressions and mini strokes and you are right back where you started from. This case is over and we should not nonsensically try Casey again, you cannot. Tear up your ticket. It is not ethical to bother a person found innocent in a court of law. This could happen to you as well.
the race is over.

A defendant can be convicted based on circumstantial evidence only but the burden of proof becomes much more difficult on the prosecution. Casey is often compared to the OJ case. There was much more wrangling in the OJ case by the entire world than with Casey. My quick analysis of each trial tells me that the evidence presented in the OJ case was by a long way much more concentrated and implicating then with Casey. Casey really was not replete with a preponderance of items shown to the jury.

“. . . return medialoid to the days when Walter Cronkite and Bill Moyers were conducting responsible, unbiased, fair and balanced journalism that contributed to the public good.”

As Borak would say, “What?!”

Bill Moyers worked for LBJ, and when LBJ heard Cronkite turn against him, he said, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America.” Cronkite, Rather, Mudd, and Hewitt are each admitted liberal Democrats, and Bill Moyers is the single most blatant and embarrassingly obvious propagandist for the hard left that PBS had to drop his incoherent drivel before Mad Magazine put him on the cover as village idiot of DuPont Circle.

The guy can’t even talk right: “Warshington!” Good grief!

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What in the world are you news media trying to do??? Just because the verdic didn’t go the way that you were pushing it to go or the way you thought it should go… Well you all were wrong and it’s killing you, grow up and except it!!! face it and stop trying to create a mob and cause someone to get seriously hurt or killed, or is that what you want so you can have another report that you can rave on and on about… GET OVER IT, the vertic was NOT GULITY!!! Accept it and shut your mouths if you know how…
I feel somehow or someway Casey was involved in it but there were not enough evidence to convict and I except the jury’s verdic and that is what everyone should do…
It is a crying shame for our news media to be allowed to attact our justice system and talk so badly about our jury members and to disrespect them like you all are doing… Matter of fact it has made allot of people glad that the verdic was not guilty…. And the way Jeff Ashton made faces and made smerky looks during the time that Casy’s lawyer was trying to talk to the jury was dispicable and a disgrace and should have been fined for his actions…. It was a good sign of stupidty on his part… I think he thought he had it in the bag and if for no other reason I was so happy that he lost and many other people feels the same way… A trial of a little child’s death and somebody else’s life at stake is no laughing matter… Why don’t you people grow-up and get some morels….
In all probability this email will never be disscussed on air and that is fine, I got to tell you what I and many other people feel about the way you all are covering this trial…. I hope none of you will ever get into a position that you will have a charge of some kind and will have to depend on a jury to judge you or judge a member of your family of the out come of your verdic…
I pray that you can get a peaceful sleep at the end of the day… Your judgement will catch you sooner or later…. No, I’m not a stupid young person as you may think, I am a grandmother and have a daughter and two grand-sons and have lived 72 years and have never witness such inmaturity with the news media… I thought you people were to report news not your judgement or opinions…. What in the world has happened to the days of Chet Huntly and news people like him, someone reporting facts and not their opinion… and now allot of people is calling themselves news people and all they are doing is gossiping between each other and trying to get everybody that they can get to view things the way they want it to be viewed… I guess you people would like to see a lynching so you can rave and rave over it so you can get high ratings… this has definetly made me decide not to ever watch HLN news and a very large group of us has agreed upon this and is going to get as many people to join in with us as we can… When Nancy Grace first came on I would not miss her program for anything, I had been a follower of hers since O.J. Simpson’s trial but she has become such an egotistical person and sooo rude to people, even the people that works with her, I stopped watching her sometime ago and now I am going to stop all you people, including Jane, you and everyone that was so judgemental… A discrace that our news media has come to this, talking up a lynch mob is what it is, at least Dr. Drew would try to come the lynch mob down and I do respect him for that but none of the others… I cannot believe all those women were out side screeming and caring on like idoits, why wasn’t they at home taking care of their children instead of acting like a bunch of redneck people that is just sooo bound and set on maybe getting their faces on TV and I am sure if their children grow-up to get any kind of education and should happen to see a re-run of all these redneck screaming people and then realize that their mother was in that group will be very embarresed… I know I am embrassed for them… Why don’t you people tell them to go home and be with their children where they should be instead of you all going out there and asking them of their opinions, you knew what their opinions were before you went out there, but that was a great way to make the hostility grow and in return to get more people to come so they can try to get their faces on TV and to also drive your rates up…. I guess you people will be happy if all of this should cause some one to be killed.. I am so thankful that all reasonble people are smart enough that they know what the law is and I for one truly admire the jury and pray that some idoits that you all have incouraged to act like ideots doesn’t seriously hurt or kill someone… If so I hope you are human enough to feel guility… I pray that you people will let this go, if the news media would let it go and stop their nonsense I do believe these monsters would go home where they belong… This all has been so sicking….
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Dan Abram’s is delusional .people want to harm Casey and the Jury..Obama has the secret service..the other politicians have money for security..Dan Abrams needs to stick to his f@ggoty misandrist books like ManDown

No future in fortune-telling or you, Dan. It is well known that the Dr. Conrad Murray Trial (or what the media will present as the Michael Jackson Doctor Trial) is next high-profile spectacle on the horizon.

Now, I predict the usual concoction of lazy tabloidists, arrogant self-appointed Jackson experts, and rabid pundits past their sell-buy dates will converge for Jackson Redux. Add some TMZ, a crew of laptop-fondling adolescents who surf for smut, and toss generously with the remaining multi-national spawn of Rupert Murdoch. That’s the perfect media mixture to distract viewers from MURRAY THE DEFENDANT with replays of Jackson’s life, face, race, pets, and children’s paternity. And. if Murray, whose freedom hangs in the balance, proves just too blah, there are always roundtable discussions on ‘the tabloid version’ of Jackson’s 2005 Trial — glossing over collective bias, incompetence and anger because they got it wrong. I recall footage of Dan Abrams at the time interviewing a reluctant official at the jail where Jackson was expected to be imprisoned following a ‘sure’ guilty verdict.

The message I get as a news consumer is this: We’ll be happy to cover the news for you, provided it’s not too much trouble, it doesn’t cost too much, and we can say whatever we like. After all, the real goal is not to inform, but to keep the customers watching and consuming the sponsors’ products.

Maybe if Murdoch’s overseas troubles spill over into the USA, the public can see a reality show with worldwide implications – media foot soldiers twitching and sweating under the hot lights of investigation. What will we do without them? We will remove the nose ring and figure things out for ourselves.

Mr.  Adler, the prosecution threshhold is not “beyond on a SHADOW of a doubt,” it’s “beyond REASONABLE doubt.”  Big difference.

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