12-05-2009, 10:12 AM
freeradical wrote:
I don't know where people get the idea that Perugia is some small backwards Catholic village. It's a city of 166,000.
I have been reading articles about this case for as long as it's been going on and have tried to find ones from various sources, not just the UK media. The murdered student was British so some of our tabloid press has been its usual idiotic self with stupid headlines but mostly there has been an unbiased reporting of the events of the case and how the trial has gone. I have seen accounts from other English speaking media who are not exactly favourable to the UK like that from Australia and they seem to say similar things to our less sensationalist papers. However, the few articles I have seen from the USA have had an obvious bias with sometimes ridiculous statements about Italy, Italians, this little backward village, Europe in general etc. It seemed as though the US media could not accept that any country outside its own shores could deal with a murder case, the attitude was quite xenophobic at times. i would appreciate someone pointing me towards other articles from the USA as I am sure there must be some who can report outside events with less bias.
From what we have heard through the media I could not say whether Amanda Knox was guilty or not, I was not at the trial to hear everything that was said, but I do have faith in the justice system in Italy. They are not backward, they are not the Third World and their justice system has been around for a while. Mistakes can happen anywhere and new evidence can be brought to appeals. At least if new evidence comes to light after a few years she will still be alive unlike some innocent people in other countries.
Paul