The media reports, webbed overnight and today, on the Conrad Black trial have been reduced to a virtual standstill:
1. Ruth Dudley Edwards, of the Irish Independent, has written a summary of the past week's events. Largely relying upon Mark Steyn, she also mentions Susan Berger.
2. CTV News has webbed a Canadian Press forecast report entitled "Black verdict likely this week." Two lawyer trial-watchers, James Morton and Hugh Totten, are cited in support of this conclusion. Csr. Morton points to the fact that the jury has been working steadily, and has not asked for any clarification of any instruction. Csr. Totten notes that the "jurors' requests suggest they may have already worked through the evidence on 'non-competes' -- the payments Black and the others received from newspaper sales in exchange for promises not to compete with the buyers of those assets." Once finished with this part, only the ancillary charges are left.
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Mark Steyn is very misleading reporter - especially when addressing audiences unfamiliar with the basic facts about his subject.
Recently = he had been writting very misleading articles about the husband of covert CIA officer and the Scooter Libby trial.
Few call him to account - save the Language Log blog.
As is typical when reading the works of journalists who shift to opinion writing, you have to call it as you see it. Myself, I haven't seen any significant trial-related fact that Mark Steyn reported on that either wasn't confirmed or was denied by straight reports.
Then again, I'm calling it as I see it myself.
Try posting that comment, Mr Ryan, on the TL blog and you will be wipped about the head with a wet noodle. :-) I wonder from where anonymous gets his/her basic facts about this subject? Sitting day in and day out in Room 1241? I doubt it!!
Actually, I've tried to confine myself to making fact-based comments and answering others' questions, if I comment there at all. :)
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