So Much Excitement
Okay, I held my breath a bit when the verdict was being read. Really now, I don't particularly like Michael Jackson, I don't particularly dislike him. I have no records of his and I don't hum his songs. Still, it was high human drama. Would the world famous person be taken away in handcuffs to spend a good deal of his life in a tiny cell. You don't wish that on anyone unless they've done something to deserve it and with most of these trials that take up time in the public space there is the fact that I don't know if the person is guilty or not and I don't feel particularly qualified to pass judgement on people based on the highly sensationalized version of the 'truth' that you get from the media. And it is hard to understand people who can make those judgements based on that information. Looking at a bit of the jury news conference I see those people who were there took seven days to go over the testimony and the instructions before coming out with their verdict. I didn't see any of them being as self assured as were the television bigmouths. Heck, there was the one lady on FNC who right before the verdict predicted a clean sweep for the prosecution. When the verdict came down that woman, who the news directors were smart to not let on the air otherwise, was heard ranting about Jackson being the 'Teflon Defendant' or some such actionable nonsense. Just your usual circus. I love those arrogant, self assured and full of judgements lawyer talking heads who proclaim this person guilty or that person a monster based on nothing. It makes FNC mostly unwatchable. Still and all, a good circus. I wonder if any of the news on television will actually do any news reporting for a while now. At least until the next celebrity trial.