[agitator]

16 years ago, I sat outside the courthouse (along with 6 other people in news trucks) where "Tookie" Amiralt's trial was held for 2 weeks. Every day, we did what is known in the business as "gratuitous live shots" for the noon nooz

("...Well Jack, we're outside the courthouse waiting for the jury to return a verdict. Nothing has happened since yesterday, we don't know when anything is going to happen, but if something DOES happen, we'll be here to cover it! Back to you in the studio, Jack! ")

The whole thing was a media circus because the media is too greedy, lazy, and stupid to do anything important and they smelled fresh, ratings meat. Beyond the witchhunt mentality that the propaganda ministry I worked in was all too happy to capitalize on, Scott Dirtburger, er Harshbarger, is one of the biggest parasites ever produced in Massachusetts - right up there with Teddy.

[TroutStalker]

Harshbarger is indeed one corrupt SOB, willing to trample anyone to get on top, just like Reno.

[Deb]

You should have been out here in L.A. for the McMartin case. Since the story was broken by a local news guy at ABC (who was dating the social worker who invented the badgering technique of children to get accusations), the local media considered it their story and there's never, ever been anything like it.

KABC actually had a weeping teddy bear as their print and on-air logo for the daily stories.