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"We're looking at the Arizona state seal"
"The doors are locked"
"The judge is late"
"We're still waiting for a verdict"
(followed by endless speculation)
"The crowd is intrigued"

An hour of nonstop Jodi Arias coverage and counting - you'd think they could cover, what is that thing, oh yeah NEWS, until the verdict in the latest hot killer lady psychopath show trial comes down.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
"We're looking at the Arizona state seal"
"The doors are locked"
"The judge is late"
"We're still waiting for a verdict"
(followed by endless speculation)
"The crowd is intrigued"

An hour of nonstop Jodi Arias coverage and counting - you'd think they could cover, what is that thing, oh yeah NEWS, until the verdict in the latest hot killer lady psychopath show trial comes down.
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You, uh, were somehow expecting something different?
 
The media loves themselves a trial of a crazy, attractive white woman. It becomes entertainment.
 
I've been following this trial from the beginning and I've been glad that HLN has been covering it. The only reason that it is being covered to the extent that it is on that particular channel is because their sister station, TRU TV, reduced their coverage mid way through the trial. At the same time HLN changed their focal point to be geared towards these type of events, ie. the trial coverage and other in your face current news. It's no longer the station that it was. Heads up, George Zimmerman is up next. If you don't like the current format, find something else to watch or continue to subject yourself to further disappointment.

I find it kinda funny about the complaints on here that they are covering this and that many think that they've been overexposed to it. I'm guessing that it's a geographical thing. Here in western PA I'd be hard pressed to find any other individual that even heard of Jodi Arias.

As far as whether or not there was any doubt in the outcome. According to precedent, OJ, Casey Anthony, etc..... hell yes, there was a lot of doubt. It's a weird world that we're in today but thankfully this jury came up with the only sane decision that it could come up with. My faith has once again been restored in our justice system..... for today anyway.
 
I find I can be a more productive person if I just look at the internet a couple of time a day and get the news story rather than spending alot of wasted time trying to watch the all day news networks trying to fill in time with irrelavent news.
 
I watched a few minutes of the trial a while back and it was rediculous. She was being cross-examined and she was the most evasive person I've ever heard that was not a politician. He would ask her a simple common sense question and she would say "I don't know". It was obvious that her attorney had coached her to answer every question she was asked that way. Everything the prosecuter asked her was met with her attorney jumping up and objecting, followed by her "I don't know". I was extremely frustrated with their attempts to keep me from knowing the truth. The jury had to feel the same thing even stronger. I think that can work against a defendant in a big way.

I didn't really pay any attention to it after that. I didn't even realize that they had a verdict until I saw it referenced in this thread.
 
I haven't followed the story but there are some clear lessons to be learned:

-always make cash transactions, using an ATM for gas or lodging allows the prosecution to track your past moves.
-Avoid posting blogging etc.... just lurk dont reveal your thoughts to the public.
-be plain and boring to avoid attention.
-absolutely no rental cars, that can be tracked. Drive a 10 year old car that doesnt have a concise service record.
-dress normal, no exotic name brands that can identified by an individual thread.
-if you have a shop grind the gun and cut up the barrel ; do whatever is possibile to obstruct ballistics, throw each piece in a different river.
-crush the teeth and toss the bits into different rivers.
-dont set up an insurance settlement, it looks guilty. If you want an insurance scam save it for a seperate crime.
-trust no one with your secrets.
-no cell phones or anything that GPSs you

-consider innocent crimes first like accidentally pushing a freind off the side of a mountain, as the sole survivor you can polish the story up and even be the hero that tried in vain to save your spouse. Perhaps even gain the sympathy of a new lover....

Wait 5 years repeat.....
 
Greg said:
I haven't followed the story but there are some clear lessons to be learned:

-always make cash transactions, using an ATM for gas or lodging allows the prosecution to track your past moves.
-Avoid posting blogging etc.... just lurk dont reveal your thoughts to the public.
-be plain and boring to avoid attention.
-absolutely no rental cars, that can be tracked. Drive a 10 year old car that doesnt have a concise service record.
-dress normal, no exotic name brands that can identified by an individual thread.
-if you have a shop grind the gun and cut up the barrel ; do whatever is possibile to obstruct ballistics, throw each piece in a different river.
-crush the teeth and toss the bits into different rivers.
-dont set up an insurance settlement, it looks guilty. If you want an insurance scam save it for a seperate crime.
-trust no one with your secrets.
-no cell phones or anything that GPSs you

-consider innocent crimes first like accidentally pushing a freind off the side of a mountain, as the sole survivor you can polish the story up and even be the hero that tried in vain to save your spouse. Perhaps even gain the sympathy of a new lover....

Wait 5 years repeat.....
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It has to be a whole lot harder to get away with crimes than it used to be. You leave an electronic footprint so many places any more. It almost seems hard to believe that they were ever able to convict anyone of murder or rape before DNA testing was developed.
 
Benevolent One said:
It has to be a whole lot harder to get away with crimes than it used to be. You leave an electronic footprint so many places any more. It almost seems hard to believe that they were ever able to convict anyone of murder or rape before DNA testing was developed.
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Too bad that DNA didn't help out with the OJ trial. Remember this.....

Big Odds Tie O.j. Simpson To Scene Only 1 In 170 Million People Share O.j. Simpson's Blood Type, A Dna Expert Said. A Drop Of That Blood Was Found By The Bodies.

No need to rehash all of the other OJ evidence but his blood at the scene, her blood in his vehicle and his home, cuts on his hands, etc..... yet they found some way to acquit. :confused: The DNA results had shown that given the US population at the time there was a possibility of two people in the US having the same DNA..... OJ and the other guy. Well, I guess the jury ruled out OJ so that other guy is still on the loose? :rolleyes:
 
The jury forewoman Armanda Cooley and two other women jurors moved into separate Condos in the same building in Boca Raton Florida which were bought in their names within a couple of months after the trial. Money trumps DNA.
 
The "news" today isn't. It's the story that's the most titillating, sorry Angelina, or that aligns with the station/paper/web/etc views and ideology.
I dismiss stories based on "high ranking" or "sources within the admin" or "unnamed sources" as nothing more than gossip. Name names. Give me facts please.
 
I tune into the local evening news as I've been doing since I was a kid, but the major news networks are a joke so I usually try to ignore them and go about my busniess.

There's way too many people stating opinion as fact - based on conjecture - these days so I'll make up my own mind and leave the editorials alone.
 
Bobw said:
The "news" today isn't. It's the story that's the most titillating, sorry Angelina, or that aligns with the station/paper/web/etc views and ideology.
I dismiss stories based on "high ranking" or "sources within the admin" or "unnamed sources" as nothing more than gossip. Name names. Give me facts please.
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Watergate?

Anonymous sources are sacred. Without them, people would be too scared to come forward.
 
I bet the national media would be covering the tornado destruction in Texas right now if it had flung out a few missing girls or was caused by an AR-15. :rolleyes:
 
The media's bias is rediculous, but not surprising. Can you imagine how much press the Kermit Gosnell trial would have received if he hadn't been an abortion doctor and what he was doing wasn't so close to what is already being done legally and supported by liberals all over the country?
 
I can give the media a little bit of a pass on the George Zimmerman trial since there is news value to it but, holy crap! It's been THE only thing on cable news all week.

They pretty much chose to ignore the Arizona firefighters story and are choosing to ignore the coup in Egypt. Frustrating as hell.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
I can give the media a little bit of a pass on the George Zimmerman trial since there is news value to it but, holy crap! It's been THE only thing on cable news all week.

They pretty much chose to ignore the Arizona firefighters story and are choosing to ignore the coup in Egypt. Frustrating as hell.
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I think the news organizations are becoming gov't owned.

What they don't cover, we dont know about, lets them get away with crap...
 
Magnethead said:
I think the news organizations are becoming gov't owned.

What they don't cover, we dont know about, lets them get away with crap...
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The NSA stories have really made the dynamics of cable news interesting. FOX News has been defending the programs and defending the Administration for these programs while MSNBC has been critical of the programs and the Administration.
 
Apparently, tanks in the streets of Cairo as 14 MILLION people in Tahrir Square react to a military coup at thunderous volumes is nothing compared to the riveting, high drama of the testimony of a firearms expert in a murder trial.
 
I bet if Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were in Cairo or if two missing girls were found in that crowd of 14 million, the American media would be all over this monumental news story.
 
Take an antacid Andy before your ulcer erupts.
 
Sky News is in the United Kingdom. They are covering the Florida propane factory explosions, live. Fox News Channel, CNN and MSNBC are in the United States, which is the country Florida is located in. They are not covering it, at all. Sky News is owned by Fox News' parent company.

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I bet if that propane factory explosion shot out a few "Carlos Danger" (Anthony Weiner) underwear pics, a missing white girl, a shiny new murder trial or could somehow be linked to George Zimmerman, CNN, Fox and msnbc would be on the air.
 
You can tell the media's pissed Ariel Castro pleaded out. If he hadn't, they would'be been able to bombard us with another trial. They've been wall-to-wall with coverage of his sentencing ALL DAY LONG.
 
Even the political shows are non-stop wall-to-wall with Ariel Castro and Trayvon Martin crapoola. Distract and divide. GRRR!!!! :mad:
 
I wonder why the search for Alexis Murphy hasn't gotten any national media coverage at all while the Hannah Anderson story was covered nonstop by the national media.
(I already know the answer to this)

Also, what purpose was served by CNN airing this picture of a 16 year-old girl on an endless loop all day?
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(I also know the answer to this)

Meanwhile... in real news: 31 people were killed in U.S. drone strikes in Yemen last week. One of those strikes targeted a school in a village in Yemen after villagers fled a clinic that had been destroyed by a drone strike moments prior. An eight year old girl was killed in that strike. Of the 31 people who were killed, the White House believes only 14 of them may have been militants.

There are new revelations coming out from the British publication The Guardian about NSA surveillance. The report claims that section 702 of the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Authorization Act was amended in 2011 to allow the NSA to search through emails and listen in on phone calls without a warrant. The document detailing this came from informant Edward Snowden, who remains in Russia where he has been granted asylum as the United States continues to search for Snowden to bring him to trial. The White House has admitted that the NSA collecting email and phone records of Americans as part of a data-mining operation, but the Obama Administration has maintained the position that that information could only be accessed with a court issued warrant.
 
Randy Taylor was arrested and will be charged with Alexis' abduction. His profile matches the one of the "Route 29" stalker. In other words, this is starting to look like Murphy may have been killed by a serial murderer. No excuse for this to continue to be buried by the Hannah Anderson ordeal.
 
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