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To: LindyBill who started this subject	8/4/2004 8:08:08 AM
From: LindyBill	of 793883

JOURNALISTS ON CRACK By malkin San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra Saunders is right on in this column on the Lori Hacking/Laci Peterson/hyped-murder-of-the-day cable news phenomenon: Here we go again. Another beautiful young white woman missing and another hinky husband -- add them together, and you get another murder-trial media circus... The trial has become a spectator sport. Analysts talk about the defense attorney as if he is a star pitcher. A good cross examination is a home run. They marvel at his technique. They opine on who has a good offense and a good defense. You would never guess somebody had died. Last year, I defended why the media would cover Laci Peterson's disappearance. If a story is of interest to readers and viewers, I said, the media should cover it. And I still believe that. I simply do not understand how anyone but family and friends can still be interested in the trial, as TV covers it. The experts have taken a quest for justice and turned it into a game. A game show. As the late great Jerry Nachman of MSNBC put it, the Peterson story is "crack for us in the business ... we can't stop ourselves..." Read the whole thing. michellemalkin.com

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