It should end up feeling like old news, but instead, there's a calm, context-rich air to the proceedings not often found in the nonstop, frenetic coverage provided by other cable networks.
Its legal analysts rarely seem to be rushing to judgment, and its use of actors seems particularly appropriate in a trial where many of the real participants stand accused of role-playing. E!'s show has soundly answered critics who said it would make a mockery of a serious judicial matter.
Nope, that's other people's job now.
"He's got his umbrella, his umbrella holder, his family, his family crest on his jacket," *Nancy Grace's tone dripped with scorn* on her Headline News show Monday night as tape rolled of Jackson arriving at court. "We've got the armband, the entourage, the bodyguard. OK, we're ready for court! Let's go to court!"
Told Jackson was wearing cowboy boots, Grace kept up the forensic fashion analysis. "Sounds to me like we're looking at an insanity defense here," she chortled.
Keith Olbermann had already gone there on MSNBC. "The day after the pajama game, is Michael Jackson nuts or a master media manipulator," wondered the "Countdown" host, invoking the memory of an imprisoned crime boss. "Anybody remember the last guy in his jammies playing loony tunes, Vinnie the Chin?"
*At least Olbermann offered a more sophisticated take* on an incident that the jurors inside the courthouse probably never even saw. . . -- Jill Vejnoska, The New York Times, 3-20-05
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