Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Worrying.

Does anyone else find the media approach to the arrests of two men in connection with the Ipswich murders deeply disturbing? Neither of them has yet been charged with anything, and may, in the event not be, and yet their lives are being pried into, family and friends are being pushed into giving interviews, and every detail is being paraded in full public view. I can't help feeling that we are in danger of slipping into the American way, where cases are tried in the media before they ever get to court. This is not - or at the least should not be - the way things are done in this country.

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