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Originally Posted by vermin
Good thing Fox News hasn't yet replaced our judicial system. They seem to be convinced that 'jury trials' and 'evidence' and 'due process' are just a waste of time. Let's let people who read teleprompters for a living decide the fates of us all. I don't know the WHOLE story, so I will hold off on judging him.
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I appreciathe this view of things. In this age and day, it seems like trials are simply a "going through the motions" of sorts, to justify the verdict of guilt or innocence that is determined by the news media. The media's impartiality has long since gone by the wayside, and any more, it's a mad scramble to make sure that the viewing public knows that your way of thinking if the right way of thinking, that you couldn't possibly be wrong if you're saying it on television.
How could all of you who "know he did it" possibly know, you haven't been presented with anything but what the news media have plastered upon the television screen. The only people who could possibly make the desicion of whether or not he did it are going to be the twelve jurors who are presented with compelling, firsthand evidence from experts who know what they're talking about, not just talking heads who inform the public of whatever their commercial interests tell them to say.
(and just for the record, i have purposefully distanced myself from this whole petersen houpla. I change the channel whenever the story comes on, because i think it's sick to sit there and revel in what has become the media spectacle surrounding the tragic death of a pregnant woman.)