Media Roundup: Facts and Fancies

Today's list of media links on the Conrad Black trial:

1. The Chicago Tribune has a detailed report, which presents both points of view, prosecution's and defense's, laced in with description of yesterday's trial events. [Registration required.]
2. Anticipatory notice of the testimony of the first witness, Gordon Paris.
3. A Toronto Star piece, by Rick Westhead, which raises the possibility of an all-woman jury, a contingency that could occur if the four men are dropped from it. Mr. Westhead notes that the preponderance of women means that the prosecution is downplaying spendthrift stereotypes and emphasizing corner-cutting.
4. A column in the Chicago Sun-Times, on the theme of seeing the former top boss on trial. The author, Mark Brown, admits to his inclination for seeing a comeuppance.
5. A report from the Baltimore Sun.
6. Slate has a report on the trial in their "Jurisprudence" section.
7. Write-up in the National Post, which describes the defense's own categorization of Mr. Black and Mr. Radler as, contrary to their more-well-known roles of concept man (Black) and detail man (Radler), co-chiefs of different geographical regions. [No "two kings of Sparta" jokes, though.]
8. A more tongue-in-cheek writeup from the Globe and Mail, with faux-moralizing included. The author of it is, evidently, on the vindication side.
9. An item in the Hamilton Spectator, written by the Canadian Press reporter put on this story, Romina Maurino.
10. A report in the Daily Express, from none other than...Joanna Walters. She notes that Conrad Black ticked the "Personal" box, for trip description, in his custom form when traveling to Bora Bora.
11. A more lively report from This Is London. Describes Judge St. Eve as "feisty."
12. From the Telegraph: the challenges of explaining the technicalities of the case to a blue-collar jury. This report points out that both the prosecution and defense are using the example of a restaurant sold from one party to another. It contains an example of Csr. Genson's wit: "'And by the end of this case, I'm going to teach him not to lie back in his chair,' he said."
13. A brief writeup from "To The Center," which contains the name of the fellow who got the ball rolling on this case, disgruntled investor Chris Browne.
14. A one paragraph squib in The Anorak, entitled "Courtroom Drama," with links to two tabloid stories on the trial.
15. Maclean's "Daily Update." The recap part of it, in the fifth paragraph, points out a discrepancy between Csr. Cramer's opening statment and the government's charges, which is explained in this March 26th story by Romina Maurino of the Canadian Press: the $60 million is the total dollar amount in theft-related charges in which all four defendants are mentioned. Maclean's seems to be a vindication-oriented source; its editor-in-chief, Ken Whyte, is a potential defense witness.
16. The same magazine also has Mark Steyn, an explicitly pro-vindication journalist, blogging his coverage of the trial. It's updated more than once in the trial day. [Thanks to "Bloodthirsty Liberal" for highlighting it, in a pro-vindication entry.]
17. The Associated Press writeup, also with trial news from today, posted on Business Week's Website.

Also: Maisonneuve has a round-up of its own, which includes a link (amongst others) to a Christie Blatchford report on the jurors' appearance; to view it in full, a subscription to the Globe and Mail is required.

And finally: an editorial, presumptively on the comeuppance side...from the Wall Street Journal. [Subscription required to read it in full.]