No Media Roundup Warranted Today; Mentions Instead

There were no new stories on the Conrad Black trial today, as far as I could find; the only reports to come in overnight covered Judge St. Eve's decision not to release the name of the jury, such as this one in the Chicago Tribune. It reports that she cited the appeal of the George Ryan trial as a reason for denying their motion. [This ruling has also been webbed by The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and by the First Amendment Center. The Center's webbing of the AP report on the denial has a link to the text of her ruling.]

So, in lieu of a roundup, here are two blog items, a Free Republic post, an opinion piece and a lifestyle write-up that mention the trial:

- From "The Organic Leadership Blog," a twice-monthly round-up of business leadership articles, called "Carnival of Leadership Growth." One of its entries uses the Conrad Black trial as a case study and is from "SoxFirst."

- From "Skipper," a blog entry on Arnold Toynbee's theory of growth and decline of civilizations, which mentions Conrad Black as one symptom of a civilization in "the 'abundance-selfishness-apathy' stage."

- From the Free Republic: a posting of a Mark Steyn interview, which starts off with the trial and ends with Denny Doherty's recent demise.

- Pamela Wallin writes, as an opener to discussing what the American media is presently fixated upon, that the Conrad Black trial isn't attracting much mainstream media attention in the United States because the dollar amounts involved are small in comparison to that of a "real" corporate scandal. ('Call us when it hits a billion,' to put it one way.)

- Shinan Govani of the National Post notes how the lives of Richard Nixon and Conrad Black have become intertwined, with the "sluts" aspersion delivered by Barbara Amiel Black as an opener to it. (Mr. Black has recently written a biography of Richard M. Nixon.)


Also: Toronto Life's blog on "The Trial of Conrad Black" has lively commentary on the trial, as well as a top-stories list of its own.