Foxy Knoxy
Feb 2nd 2014, 2:28 pm
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That was the only point I was trying to make.
50 states, with 50 different but similar justice systems, but certainly not exactly identical. so it would all be dependent on which state the crime took place in.
Feb 3rd 2014, 2:20 am
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Re: Foxy Knoxy
My point was, you posted she would be dead by now if she had been convicted in the US, which is not true for most of the country, maybe in a few states yes, but certainly not true as a whole.
That was the only point I was trying to make.
50 states, with 50 different but similar justice systems, but certainly not exactly identical. so it would all be dependent on which state the crime took place in.
That was the only point I was trying to make.
50 states, with 50 different but similar justice systems, but certainly not exactly identical. so it would all be dependent on which state the crime took place in.
Feb 3rd 2014, 2:25 am
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I think it's very unfair that she gets so much positive press coverage just because she looks OK.
And yes I have seen a lot of attacks on the Italian judicial system.
Feb 3rd 2014, 4:29 am
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I was pleased to see in a Guardian article yesterday that the accompanying photo was actually Meredith, and think that would be a more appropriate convention for newspapers to follow. We ought to keep her memory alive not fixate on Amanda (so says the Mr Pot
).
Feb 3rd 2014, 6:57 am
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She gets a lot of press (because of her ok looks) but in the UK it is mostly negative. The US reports I have heard have been fairly biased (in Amanda's favour - quelle surprise).
I was pleased to see in a Guardian article yesterday that the accompanying photo was actually Meredith, and think that would be a more appropriate convention for newspapers to follow. We ought to keep her memory alive not fixate on Amanda (so says the Mr Pot).
I was pleased to see in a Guardian article yesterday that the accompanying photo was actually Meredith, and think that would be a more appropriate convention for newspapers to follow. We ought to keep her memory alive not fixate on Amanda (so says the Mr Pot
).
Feb 3rd 2014, 6:59 am
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She gets a lot of press (because of her ok looks) but in the UK it is mostly negative. The US reports I have heard have been fairly biased (in Amanda's favour - quelle surprise).
I was pleased to see in a Guardian article yesterday that the accompanying photo was actually Meredith, and think that would be a more appropriate convention for newspapers to follow. We ought to keep her memory alive not fixate on Amanda (so says the Mr Pot).
I was pleased to see in a Guardian article yesterday that the accompanying photo was actually Meredith, and think that would be a more appropriate convention for newspapers to follow. We ought to keep her memory alive not fixate on Amanda (so says the Mr Pot
).
Feb 3rd 2014, 8:02 am
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It's the same with the Saville case. I don't think the media should be replaying his image ad infinitum given his fall from grace. A name would be enough.
To Jings point, perhaps more difficult when there have been multiple murders. But look at Lee Rigby, we'll remember him, and see the (multiple) perpetrators as vague monsters.
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Feb 3rd 2014, 9:59 am
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Why not? We don't know either of them personally. It makes more sense to me to remember a victim than a perpetrator. Somehow there's a respect to it.
It's the same with the Saville case. I don't think the media should be replaying his image ad infinitum given his fall from grace. A name would be enough.
To Jings point, perhaps more difficult when there have been multiple murders. But look at Lee Rigby, we'll remember him, and see the (multiple) perpetrators as vague monsters.
It's the same with the Saville case. I don't think the media should be replaying his image ad infinitum given his fall from grace. A name would be enough.
To Jings point, perhaps more difficult when there have been multiple murders. But look at Lee Rigby, we'll remember him, and see the (multiple) perpetrators as vague monsters.
Neither story need one name being manipulated over another for prominence, because the market place of interest/concern dictated the result.
Feb 4th 2014, 1:25 am
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I think your examples illustrate that it is the story that dictates which names we know. Rigby was the story. The perpetrators never being in doubt. Knox is the story because her role is moot.
Neither story need one name being manipulated over another for prominence, because the market place of interest/concern dictated the result.
Neither story need one name being manipulated over another for prominence, because the market place of interest/concern dictated the result.
Feb 4th 2014, 2:41 am
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