I’m not quite sure which was worse, the huge media hoohah that was the verdict of the Michael Jackson trial last night, or the fact that I ended up glued to the telly watching it. Yes, I was particularly sad and flipped between the Beeb and Sky to try and determine who had the least worst commentary. It really was very amusing to hear the Beeb deride the media spectacle it had become, without feeling any sort of irony in their involvement, and bizarrely fascinating to see how a bunch of commentators with nothing to say could fill hours of time with complete drivel. I still watched anyway. Double irony.
Which was just as well, because otherwise I would have missed THE best quote of the evening from a former prosecutor speaking of Janet Arvizo (quote from memory): “there’s the circus outside the courtroom, there’s the circus inside the courtroom and there’s the circus in her head”.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Paula // 15th Jun 2005 at 10:34 pm
I think the verdict has sent out the wrong message. Basically what the jury said was they didn’t like the mother, so that was that as far as they were concerned. It will mean more victims of abuse not coming forward because their family aren’t the Waltons.
Anyway, I quite enjoyed the re-enactment programme when I caught it!
2 oregano // 21st Jun 2005 at 12:58 am
Does this post now make you part of said media spectacle? I was particularly amused by the woman releasing the doves.
3 Pewari // 21st Jun 2005 at 10:18 am
Oh of course – hypocrisy comes full circle ;)
Yes – dove woman was amusing. As someone on Mumsnet said at the time, what was she going to do if he was found guilty of any of the charges? Wring that dove’s neck?!
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