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Knox said his daughter's testimony will counterbalance the more insidious image created by sensationalist coverage in the Italian and British press during the past year and a half. "She comes into this courtroom and smiles at me and her attorneys, and they take these pictures of her smiling out of context and say, Look, she's having a glorious day in court!" On the contrary, Knox says, his daughter "feels the Kerchers' heartfelt loss." "I hope people are starting to recognize she's an honest person who wants to tell the truth...
...reports of embedded journalists, showing terrified young faces of American soldiers and piles of death wherever one looked. Until that time, the public’s overall exposure to that kind of violence had been limited to things like comparably tame horror movies, historical books about war, and sensationalist news stories about gangsters. Although the American psyche has probably always been just as obsessed with violence as today, viewers before the Vietnam era wouldn’t be able to get their fix of it from film and television then like they can now. When people saw the violence...
...worried about being wrongfully targeted. “We didn’t want to venture out because we might get shot by the police,” he said.Singh said that as he sat in the hostel watching the news, what he saw was “horribly sensationalist,” as reports came in that as many as 15 locations had been targeted. “We heard there was fresh firing here, fresh firing there,” he said. “We knew it wasn’t true because we were there...
...Baytelman says part of the blame lies with the Chilean media. Local media tends to highlight sensationalist accounts of robberies, rapes, murders and assaults. Watching the TV news here, you could be forgiven for thinking you were in the favelas of Brazil or the mean streets of Colombia, not in relatively safe Santiago...
...least, so warned "America’s Most Wanted" host John Walsh when the sensationalist crime show profiled Israel last week alongside its usual array of rapists and murderers. When you look at the balding, paunchy, middle-aged Israel, “danger” is not the first, or even second, word that comes to mind...