I got really annoyed on Thursday evening, when I read a comment on CNN in an article entitled 'Amanda Knox retrial verdict: Six things to know'.
Firstly, why was she back on trial? Fair enough, that's a question the answer to which anyone interested in the verdict should know. Second up:
Had I been eating cornflakes I would have choked on them. "Renewed questions about the effectiveness of Italy's justice system"? Here is a line that (if it wasn't) might as well have been lifted directly out of a release from Amanda Knox's well-funded PR machine.
Compare and contrast with its coverage of the execution of Troy Davis, a man put to death in Georgia despite the fact that most of the original prosecution witnesses had subsequently retracted their testimony, alleging they were put under pressure to testify by the police and the DA.
