Upon some reflection. I think between this case and the Straus Con (kahn) case I think we all can learn a bit about "rush to judgement"...

 

The media it out of control destroying people's lives in the "court of media" where peoples lives are turned upside down from the judgement of our media. All prior to people having their day in court.

 

A child died, the media immediately tried and convicted her in the court of public opinion. Same thing with the head of the IMF.

 

The IMF case is a  more telling case as they have let him out of his "confinement" without even a judgement from the courts...

 

Which makes my "oh he has money and can get off" when busted behaving in a morally reprehensible way. But still, is this the way we want our system set up, where media outlets decide the "facts" that get repeated over and over until everyone is convinced of someone's guilt, when they don't have a chance to set the record straight in court.

 

It is an interesting "media bias" issue, and indicative of our insatiable appetite for news...  and our ability to rush to judgement.

There was little-to-no tangible evidence connecting her to a purposeful death of the child. The prosecutor ran the whole trial on trying to connect Casey Anthony as an irresponsible parent to Casey Anthony as a murderer. Which there simply wasn't the evidence to do. All they presented, for the most part, was circumstantial evidence, the equivalent of pointing to pictures of her drinking and partying and going "Yeah look how bad she looks! See! Doesn't this look like the kind of person who would kill their kid!" 

That's, thankfully, not how evidence works. Being an irresponsible person doesn't connect you to other crimes. Or at least not murder. Convictions work on evidence, not on gut feelings that she just seems guilty. 

Now, the charges of child neglect (Or whatever it was called, I don't remember)? Probably could have been better considered.

But, in the end, it was a good verdict. 

Oh, for sure. 

Don't think that I personally believe that Casey Anthony is innocent. She acted in an incredibly sketchy way for a very long time, and either was neglectful leading to her child's death, or killed her child. 

But, in a court of law, you have to present evidence and motive when life and death is on the line. The prosecution just couldn't do that. 

Certainly. 

I recall the same uproar concerning the Ramsey murder in the 1990s, how everyone was just convinced that the parents murdered their daughter. The media followed along with that uproar, essentially all but attempting to convict the parents themselves. 

In 2008, a more-technologically updated DNA test cleared both parents from the murder scene.

The media loves playing into human desire for bloodlust. Especially when it'll raise profits. 

Ayup. 

There were 11 children who were homicide victims in Orange County from 2008, the beginning of this whole ordeal, until now. 

Yet for some reason none of them are massive ordeals by either the media or public. 

 

 

Or the news of Atlanta's teachers/principles cheating so they got more money... Naa, that story isn't headline worthy...

 

Course none of these cases are "hate crimes" either.

Is saw this quite a few places yesterday. I actually http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43655450/ns/us_news-christian_science_monitor/ - read about it first on MSNBC . I didn't know the CSM was working with MSNBC now-a-days. Good for them. 

It also was on the http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=GA_AJC&ref_pge=gal&b_pge=1 - front page of the Atlanta Journal Constitution. 

CNN http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/07/06/lavandera.atlanta.schools.scandal.cnn?iref=allsearch - ran the original story yesterday , and had a followup http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/06/georgia.school.cheating/index.html?iref=allsearch - with the superintendent's rebuttal. 

This story was everywhere yesterday. 

Yeah, actually this story is blowing up here in Northern Ohio. I've also seen it on national news stations a few times. It's a pretty big deal.