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Watching the "News"

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

Watching the news as a criminal defense lawyer is different than watching the news as someone who buys into the notion that it is actually ?news.? Someone recently told me when it comes to reporting on criminal cases, it's editorial disguised as news. True.So last week I was out of town watching one of those local news stations that have no network affiliation. All news, all the time. They need to make it interesting.Seems a baseball player was arrested for prostitution. Ho hum. A semi-famous person arrested for picking up a prostitute. What is this world coming to?Three things about the story caught my attention:[1] The first line of the story: ?We were the only news station outside the jail when the defendant was released.?This was not a defendant arrested for killing someone, hurting someone, stealing from someone, a defendant who the police were looking for, or a household name...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on March 29, 2010 (boomark / email).