Is it me?
For the last week or so I've been amazed and vaguely horrified by the news coverage of the Diana/Dodi inquest.
Is it normal for jurors to be taken to the scene of a crash? To be shown the route taken? To be shown marks on a pillar? To be shown round a hotel? I accept this is not a normal case but equally it is not the first time this case has been delved into.
Is it really front page news compared to other stories that could be there? Is it really something that needs to make the headlines half way round the world? I guess if there were some really monumental findings from all this, they could be of significance... What irritates me the most is the longer it goes on, the more I see links to pages about it or hear the headlines on the news about it, the more I find myself thinking that I want to know what they have to say.
Also on the front page of the BBC website today is this article about the UN and Burma that has some really hopeful bits in it. The fact that China have turned around and stopped objecting to a statement by the UN Security Council "deploring Burma's military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters" is, I hope very, very much, a sign of a turn in the tide. The article is not all good news but a start is a start.
2 comments:
The coverage is insane. It is one inquest/inquiry (?) just like hundreds of others that take place each year. I think it is probably normal for jurors to be taken to the scene.... but the coverage is not normal!
That makes it a bit better if it is normal to go to the scene...but it seemed kinda crazy they were being shown a scratch on a pillar from ten years ago!
I've not seen the news for a few days so not sure it is still headlining here!
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