Listening to the radio last night I heard the result of the Amanda Knox appeal hearing in Italy, reporting as if she was a well known & well loved celebrity, instead of someone who had been a convicted murderer. It was slightly disgusting in as much as it must have been about 15minutes before the poor victim, Meredith Kercher was even mentioned.
It's not that I think the Knox & Raffaele Sollecito have got away with murder, I find cases that really just on DNA very unsatisfactory. Being old fashioned I like actual proof, witnesses and motives. I have heard a few interesting talks about flawed DNA evidence and think it is often given too great an importance.
Either way I think perhaps a bit more emphasis on the Kercher family would have been more fitting. They have lost their daighter in horrific circumstances forever. At most the Knox's have had a few years without their daughter but were still able to speak to her and visit her. I am sure that the Knox family would not swap positions.
Also a few years ago the press that are today reporting about this innocent young girl being freed to rebuild her life are the very press that were falling over themselves to destroy Knox as a person, getting phycologists to take apart her character from how she presented herself at court.
There are times when you have to wonder why anyone reads the papers or listens to the media. There is a quote doing the rounds on twitter at the moment, which might or might not be correctly reported or atributed but seems to sum up things;
"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed"
Anyway back to my life, the course went well apart from a couple of the dongles failed to connect to the inteenet and that I am full of a cold.
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