Media Roundup: Buckle-Down And The Donald

Week 2 of the trial is about to begin, and here are the stories that are on the Internet about it:

1. A brief review of week 1 from "To The Center."

2. The latest report from Peter Worthington, which recounts the time, back in 1983, when he himself was a client of Eddie Greenspan, as part of a team of Tory delegates that were shut out by the party. Mentions one of Csr. Greenspan's rules for his clients: "no ad-libbing."

3. [Links, and intros, to Ms. Maurino's coverage has been updated in the more recent post, "Monday's action in the Conrad Black trial."]

4. The Hamilton Spectator has a re-cap, credited to the Associated Press, that seems to be a distillation of Ms. Maurino's latest report.

5. Doug Sanders of the Globe and Mail discusses the fall of Conrad Black in London society, chalking it up to schadenfreude that seems to have gone too far at this point; it references Lord Black's recent, and unwebbed, article in the Tatler. Mr. Sanders' report begins with "When Conrad Black's Chicago fraud trial becomes a topic of discussion among his friends, ex-friends, hangers-on and onetime guests, the Americans tend to mention the big houses and the private jets, the Canadians the high-flying corporate and political connections. But in England, characteristically, it's all about the booze."

6. Another article in the Globe and Mail, by Paul Waldie, relates the status of the Chicago Tribune's motion to have the identities of the jurors released to the public. It mentions the exposure of the two jurors in the George Ryan case, which is currently under appeal. The Province also has a write-up on this issue, available to subscribers only.

7. A quadruple, plus a later addition, about Donald Trump's advice, for Mr. Black to "hang tough:" from the Ottawa Citizen, a report that's available to subscribers only; from the Calgary Sun, a complete report, with a note on the current iteration of the Trump-O'Donnell feud; from the National Post, a report on the entire Learning Annex session that Mr. Trump is part of, with a note of an potential (as of now) feud between Mr. Trump and Toronto real-estate developer Harry Stinson; and, from the Toronto Star, a write-up that mentions the Blacks attending his 2005 wedding to Melania Knauss. The Star report has a more complete report on Mr. Trump's put-down of Ms. O'Donnell.

This report from the National Post's Financial Post has a little more detail on that potential feud, or just plain public ribbing, between Mr. Trump and Mr. Stinson. Both are partners in a to-be-built condo development in Toronto.

8. A two-paragraph mention of Conrad Black at the end of a Toronto Star discussion of the Economist turning its praise of Canada to a pan, which brings up Mr. Black's tendency to object to the wrong kind of (public) defense (from a non-lawyer.)

9. Crikey is back with more "Trial Noir" coverage. Available to subscribers only, but a free trial is offered.


Finally: Conrad Black's media defense is mentioned in contrast to the condemnation that Bishop Gilbert Deya has received in Kenya, by a "a Barrister & Solicitor in Toronto, Canada" named Miguna Miguna. Webbed at the Kenya Times.