Media Roundup: Forward-Looking Reprises

The media reports, webbed overnight and today, on the Conrad Black trial have mostly stayed focused upon the deliberations, except for one that focuses on the most watched defendant:

1. The National Post's Theresa Tedesco has written a feature on Conrad Black's life as of now, as based upon an interview with Conrad himself. It's entitled "Black: Not The Trial I Expected," and it features him discussing the fairness of the trial, his family, and hinting at what he plans to do if he's not acquitted by the jury. It also mentions that Conrad's ex-wife Joanna is down in Chicago too.

2. A brief item from the Toronto Sun starts off with noting that the jury will be deliberating Monday from 9 AM CT to 4:45 PM ET.

3. The Calgary Sun has webbed an abridged Canadian Press report that recaps yesterday's wait.

4. The Edmonton Journal has webbed an even briefer recap item, entitled "Black jury back Monday to deliberate."

5. 680 News has webbed a report whose subject is item #1. It contains a summary of the interview, with highlights.

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Regular trial-watcher Douglas Bell has penned a review of Woody Allen's latest book, Mere Anarchy, for the Globe and Mail. His recommendation: a worthy effort from Mr. Allen, but wait for the movie.

Mark Steyn, in his Maclean's Conrad Black trial blog, makes a supplementary point about his earlier characterization of the non-compete agreements with American Publishing, reinforcing his conclusion. Instead of arguing that the associated payments were legal because they would restrict the defendants' conduct had he resigned from Hollinger International, he argues that the payments were legal because no theft from Hollinger Int'l was ever involved. The reason behind the supplementation of his original argument was he being informed by a defense lawyer that the characterization of the APC non-compete payments in David Radler's testimony was different from what Mr. Steyn had originally wrote. The latter was based a point made by Patrick Tuite during the closing argument.


Someone who turned out not to be associated with the trial got some good news today: Donald Trump's "The Apprentice" show has been renewed for another season.