[FairfieldLife] Re: Barry: what can you tell us of Europe's reaction to Amanda Knox?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I don't know who Amanda Knox is and don't care. Most Europeans I know wouldn't know or care, either. Interesting. Most media accounts I've read or seen here specifically said that the Amanda Knox case was gripping all of Europe. Anther thing they got wrong, I suppose. It was a big deal here, it had all the ingredients for a juicy story. Sex, drugs, murder, innocents abroad, allegedly incompetent/corrupt police. Endless speculation in the press divided along editors ethical lines, was she fitted up or is she a cold-blooded killer? General consensus among the lefty press is that they found her guilty to save face in the police dept even though there wasn't any real evidence and she'll be freed on appeal. The right wing press consider her spawn of the devil and guilty as charged. The rest of us wil probably never know. To be honest, if you had asked me this question a week ago, I would have said that I simply don't understand Americans' fascination with media-fueled crime stories. But now I've been stuck in my hotel room for extended periods of time waiting for conference calls with only my TV and remote control to amuse me, and I understand better. The programming on American TV is so bad that the crime stories on the news are often more entertain- ing. :-) The worst so far is Bad Girls Club, which seems to be what they call a reality show in which they pit seven or eight megabitches against each other for several days to see who can dirty-trick the others out of the running for Big Bitch. Horrific. I must admit to not having discovered anything I wasn't watching already that I feel like continuing to watch. I did watch a few more old episodes of Bones, and have come to like Zooey Deschanel's sister Emily. Not enough to keep watching the series, but she seems to be a better actress than Zooey. And they could easily both be TM meditators, so that may even reduces my anti-TM quotient. Since my friends here can't get together with me until 10:00 tonight, I'm looking forward to watching the resuming series Fastforward to see whether they'll be able to come up with anything interesting. But I haven't been able to make it through more than 2 or 3 minutes of *any* news show. Enough to realize that FOX is even more over-the-top than I thought it was, and that sadly most of the others aren't that far behind. So I'm really not the person to ask about some news story personality. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: The following is from amazon.com's product description of the book Angel Face: the true story of student killer Amanda Knox: Despite all the airtime devoted to Amanda Knox, it's still hard to reconcile the fresh-faced honor student from Seattle with the sexually rapacious killer convicted of the November 2007 murder of her British roommate. Few Americans have heard all of the powerful evidence that convinced a jury that Knox was one of three people to sexually assault Meredith Kercher, brutalize her body, and cut her throat. In Angel Face, Rome-based Daily Beast senior writer Barbie Latza Nadeau who cultivated personal relationships with the key figures in both the prosecution and the defense describes how the Knox family's heavy-handed efforts to control media coverage distorted the facts, inflamed an American audience, and painted an offensive, inaccurate picture of Italy's justice system. An eye-opener for any parent considering sending a child away to study, Angel Face reveals what really went on in this incomprehensible crime. I certainly was hoodwinked by several American news magazine stories (like 20/20 and Dateline) into believing that Knox was innocent. But after reading several blogs to the contrary, I believe she's quite guilty. Barry, are you aware of this case and, if so, can you give us Europe's reaction to it?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Barry: what can you tell us of Europe's reaction to Amanda Knox?
-- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: What have you found Shemp? I know a little about this crazy Italian prosecutor (under indictment in other cases for misconduct and abuse of power) from the book The Monster of Florence where he tried to run this whole satanic cult routine on an American journalist who was writing a book about a serial killer. That story was so parallel to what happened to Amanda that I'm still in the innocent camp. They have a ton of real forensic evidence on the guy they convicted first. What makes you think there is more to the story than the one guy with a rape motive who was not friends with Amanda doing the crime? And she would have to be really in cahoots with him because she mistakenly fingered another guy during the prolonged interrogation. An obviously innocent guy. A desperate move of a terrified girl. So she would have to be willing to go to jail rather than give the guy up. Why? He fled the country and Amanda and boyfriend stuck around and phoned in the crime. Then the guy they first convicted got caught and brought back to Italy doesn't immediately give up Amanda or the boyfriend either. He holds out until they give him a deal specifically for saying they were involved later. And comparing the family inflaming the American public to the inflaming articles in Italy with a non sequestered jury seems a bit much. A charge that the parents manipulated the media seems far fetched, it makes just as good a story either way. The judge basically said there was no motive. She just happened to get together with a drifter criminal and due to the consumption of stupefacente (refer madness)commit bloody murder? It was a total Helter Skelter scene with such a small amount of trace of Amanda and boyfriend that the it was destroyed by the prosecutor's testing so the defense couldn't have it independently tested. I would love to have my perspective rocked on this, where should I go, what blogs? The following is from amazon.com's product description of the book Angel Face: the true story of student killer Amanda Knox: Despite all the airtime devoted to Amanda Knox, it's still hard to reconcile the fresh-faced honor student from Seattle with the sexually rapacious killer convicted of the November 2007 murder of her British roommate. Few Americans have heard all of the powerful evidence that convinced a jury that Knox was one of three people to sexually assault Meredith Kercher, brutalize her body, and cut her throat. In Angel Face, Rome-based Daily Beast senior writer Barbie Latza Nadeau who cultivated personal relationships with the key figures in both the prosecution and the defense describes how the Knox family's heavy-handed efforts to control media coverage distorted the facts, inflamed an American audience, and painted an offensive, inaccurate picture of Italy's justice system. An eye-opener for any parent considering sending a child away to study, Angel Face reveals what really went on in this incomprehensible crime. I certainly was hoodwinked by several American news magazine stories (like 20/20 and Dateline) into believing that Knox was innocent. But after reading several blogs to the contrary, I believe she's quite guilty. Barry, are you aware of this case and, if so, can you give us Europe's reaction to it?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Barry: what can you tell us of Europe's reaction to Amanda Knox?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I don't know who Amanda Knox is and don't care. Most Europeans I know wouldn't know or care, either. Interesting. Most media accounts I've read or seen here specifically said that the Amanda Knox case was gripping all of Europe. Anther thing they got wrong, I suppose. Fascination with sensational crime stories is a universal human trait. The evil outsider committing a crime is an Italian archetype perhaps more than in other countries. And 'outsider can mean from the next valley over. To be honest, if you had asked me this question a week ago, I would have said that I simply don't understand Americans' fascination with media-fueled crime stories. But now I've been stuck in my hotel room for extended periods of time waiting for conference calls with only my TV and remote control to amuse me, and I understand better. The programming on American TV is so bad that the crime stories on the news are often more entertain- ing. :-) The worst so far is Bad Girls Club, which seems to be what they call a reality show in which they pit seven or eight megabitches against each other for several days to see who can dirty-trick the others out of the running for Big Bitch. Horrific. I must admit to not having discovered anything I wasn't watching already that I feel like continuing to watch. I did watch a few more old episodes of Bones, and have come to like Zooey Deschanel's sister Emily. Not enough to keep watching the series, but she seems to be a better actress than Zooey. And they could easily both be TM meditators, so that may even reduces my anti-TM quotient. Since my friends here can't get together with me until 10:00 tonight, I'm looking forward to watching the resuming series Fastforward to see whether they'll be able to come up with anything interesting. But I haven't been able to make it through more than 2 or 3 minutes of *any* news show. Enough to realize that FOX is even more over-the-top than I thought it was, and that sadly most of the others aren't that far behind. So I'm really not the person to ask about some news story personality. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: The following is from amazon.com's product description of the book Angel Face: the true story of student killer Amanda Knox: Despite all the airtime devoted to Amanda Knox, it's still hard to reconcile the fresh-faced honor student from Seattle with the sexually rapacious killer convicted of the November 2007 murder of her British roommate. Few Americans have heard all of the powerful evidence that convinced a jury that Knox was one of three people to sexually assault Meredith Kercher, brutalize her body, and cut her throat. In Angel Face, Rome-based Daily Beast senior writer Barbie Latza Nadeau who cultivated personal relationships with the key figures in both the prosecution and the defense describes how the Knox family's heavy-handed efforts to control media coverage distorted the facts, inflamed an American audience, and painted an offensive, inaccurate picture of Italy's justice system. An eye-opener for any parent considering sending a child away to study, Angel Face reveals what really went on in this incomprehensible crime. I certainly was hoodwinked by several American news magazine stories (like 20/20 and Dateline) into believing that Knox was innocent. But after reading several blogs to the contrary, I believe she's quite guilty. Barry, are you aware of this case and, if so, can you give us Europe's reaction to it?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Barry: what can you tell us of Europe's reaction to Amanda Knox?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I don't know who Amanda Knox is and don't care. Most Europeans I know wouldn't know or care, either. Interesting. Most media accounts I've read or seen here specifically said that the Amanda Knox case was gripping all of Europe. Anther thing they got wrong, I suppose. Not so. Here in the UK it had enormous coverage. I would say most people were bemused, didn't know what to make of it. A very odd crime and a very odd story. To be honest, if you had asked me this question a week ago, I would have said that I simply don't understand Americans' fascination with media-fueled crime stories. But now I've been stuck in my hotel room for extended periods of time waiting for conference calls with only my TV and remote control to amuse me, and I understand better. The programming on American TV is so bad that the crime stories on the news are often more entertain- ing. :-) The worst so far is Bad Girls Club, which seems to be what they call a reality show in which they pit seven or eight megabitches against each other for several days to see who can dirty-trick the others out of the running for Big Bitch. Horrific. I must admit to not having discovered anything I wasn't watching already that I feel like continuing to watch. I did watch a few more old episodes of Bones, and have come to like Zooey Deschanel's sister Emily. Not enough to keep watching the series, but she seems to be a better actress than Zooey. And they could easily both be TM meditators, so that may even reduces my anti-TM quotient. Since my friends here can't get together with me until 10:00 tonight, I'm looking forward to watching the resuming series Fastforward to see whether they'll be able to come up with anything interesting. But I haven't been able to make it through more than 2 or 3 minutes of *any* news show. Enough to realize that FOX is even more over-the-top than I thought it was, and that sadly most of the others aren't that far behind. So I'm really not the person to ask about some news story personality. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: The following is from amazon.com's product description of the book Angel Face: the true story of student killer Amanda Knox: Despite all the airtime devoted to Amanda Knox, it's still hard to reconcile the fresh-faced honor student from Seattle with the sexually rapacious killer convicted of the November 2007 murder of her British roommate. Few Americans have heard all of the powerful evidence that convinced a jury that Knox was one of three people to sexually assault Meredith Kercher, brutalize her body, and cut her throat. In Angel Face, Rome-based Daily Beast senior writer Barbie Latza Nadeau who cultivated personal relationships with the key figures in both the prosecution and the defense describes how the Knox family's heavy-handed efforts to control media coverage distorted the facts, inflamed an American audience, and painted an offensive, inaccurate picture of Italy's justice system. An eye-opener for any parent considering sending a child away to study, Angel Face reveals what really went on in this incomprehensible crime. I certainly was hoodwinked by several American news magazine stories (like 20/20 and Dateline) into believing that Knox was innocent. But after reading several blogs to the contrary, I believe she's quite guilty. Barry, are you aware of this case and, if so, can you give us Europe's reaction to it?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Barry: what can you tell us of Europe's reaction to Amanda Knox?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I don't know who Amanda Knox is and don't care. Most Europeans I know wouldn't know or care, either. Interesting. Most media accounts I've read or seen here specifically said that the Amanda Knox case was gripping all of Europe. Anther thing they got wrong, I suppose. It was a big deal here, Where is here? it had all the ingredients for a juicy story. Sex, drugs, murder, innocents abroad, allegedly incompetent/corrupt police. Endless speculation in the press divided along editors ethical lines, was she fitted up or is she a cold-blooded killer? General consensus among the lefty press is that they found her guilty to save face in the police dept even though there wasn't any real evidence and she'll be freed on appeal. The right wing press consider her spawn of the devil and guilty as charged. The rest of us wil probably never know. To be honest, if you had asked me this question a week ago, I would have said that I simply don't understand Americans' fascination with media-fueled crime stories. But now I've been stuck in my hotel room for extended periods of time waiting for conference calls with only my TV and remote control to amuse me, and I understand better. The programming on American TV is so bad that the crime stories on the news are often more entertain- ing. :-) The worst so far is Bad Girls Club, which seems to be what they call a reality show in which they pit seven or eight megabitches against each other for several days to see who can dirty-trick the others out of the running for Big Bitch. Horrific. I must admit to not having discovered anything I wasn't watching already that I feel like continuing to watch. I did watch a few more old episodes of Bones, and have come to like Zooey Deschanel's sister Emily. Not enough to keep watching the series, but she seems to be a better actress than Zooey. And they could easily both be TM meditators, so that may even reduces my anti-TM quotient. Since my friends here can't get together with me until 10:00 tonight, I'm looking forward to watching the resuming series Fastforward to see whether they'll be able to come up with anything interesting. But I haven't been able to make it through more than 2 or 3 minutes of *any* news show. Enough to realize that FOX is even more over-the-top than I thought it was, and that sadly most of the others aren't that far behind. So I'm really not the person to ask about some news story personality. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: The following is from amazon.com's product description of the book Angel Face: the true story of student killer Amanda Knox: Despite all the airtime devoted to Amanda Knox, it's still hard to reconcile the fresh-faced honor student from Seattle with the sexually rapacious killer convicted of the November 2007 murder of her British roommate. Few Americans have heard all of the powerful evidence that convinced a jury that Knox was one of three people to sexually assault Meredith Kercher, brutalize her body, and cut her throat. In Angel Face, Rome-based Daily Beast senior writer Barbie Latza Nadeau who cultivated personal relationships with the key figures in both the prosecution and the defense describes how the Knox family's heavy-handed efforts to control media coverage distorted the facts, inflamed an American audience, and painted an offensive, inaccurate picture of Italy's justice system. An eye-opener for any parent considering sending a child away to study, Angel Face reveals what really went on in this incomprehensible crime. I certainly was hoodwinked by several American news magazine stories (like 20/20 and Dateline) into believing that Knox was innocent. But after reading several blogs to the contrary, I believe she's quite guilty. Barry, are you aware of this case and, if so, can you give us Europe's reaction to it?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Barry: what can you tell us of Europe's reaction to Amanda Knox?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodlewix@ wrote: It was a big deal here, Where is here? He's posting from a UK IP address.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Barry: what can you tell us of Europe's reaction to Amanda Knox?
ShempMcGurk wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo fintlewoodle...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I don't know who Amanda Knox is and don't care. Most Europeans I know wouldn't know or care, either. Interesting. Most media accounts I've read or seen here specifically said that the Amanda Knox case was gripping all of Europe. Anther thing they got wrong, I suppose. It was a big deal here, Where is here? I think Barry like me does not pay a whole lot of attention to pop news. We get these stories because MSM wants to bump stuff we should be paying attention to and doing something about off the front pages. Stories like these are a diversion for the sheeple and would have been barely reported 20 years ago.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Barry: what can you tell us of Europe's reaction to Amanda Knox?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, PaliGap compost...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: I don't know who Amanda Knox is and don't care. Most Europeans I know wouldn't know or care, either. Interesting. Most media accounts I've read or seen here specifically said that the Amanda Knox case was gripping all of Europe. Anther thing they got wrong, I suppose. Not so. Here in the UK it had enormous coverage. I would say most people were bemused, didn't know what to make of it. A very odd crime and a very odd story. I didn't say it wasn't covered, merely that I and the kinds of people I know would never have watched it if it was.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Barry: what can you tell us of Europe's reaction to Amanda Knox?
There are several HuffingtonPost stories on Amanda that have very lively comments sections. This is where I was challenged when I made my naive she's innocent comment. Here a link to one of the most lifely ones (again, read the comments sections): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/13/amanda-knox-jail-intervie_n_390274.html --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues curtisdeltabl...@... wrote: -- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: What have you found Shemp? I know a little about this crazy Italian prosecutor (under indictment in other cases for misconduct and abuse of power) from the book The Monster of Florence where he tried to run this whole satanic cult routine on an American journalist who was writing a book about a serial killer. That story was so parallel to what happened to Amanda that I'm still in the innocent camp. They have a ton of real forensic evidence on the guy they convicted first. What makes you think there is more to the story than the one guy with a rape motive who was not friends with Amanda doing the crime? And she would have to be really in cahoots with him because she mistakenly fingered another guy during the prolonged interrogation. An obviously innocent guy. A desperate move of a terrified girl. So she would have to be willing to go to jail rather than give the guy up. Why? He fled the country and Amanda and boyfriend stuck around and phoned in the crime. Then the guy they first convicted got caught and brought back to Italy doesn't immediately give up Amanda or the boyfriend either. He holds out until they give him a deal specifically for saying they were involved later. And comparing the family inflaming the American public to the inflaming articles in Italy with a non sequestered jury seems a bit much. A charge that the parents manipulated the media seems far fetched, it makes just as good a story either way. The judge basically said there was no motive. She just happened to get together with a drifter criminal and due to the consumption of stupefacente (refer madness)commit bloody murder? It was a total Helter Skelter scene with such a small amount of trace of Amanda and boyfriend that the it was destroyed by the prosecutor's testing so the defense couldn't have it independently tested. I would love to have my perspective rocked on this, where should I go, what blogs? The following is from amazon.com's product description of the book Angel Face: the true story of student killer Amanda Knox: Despite all the airtime devoted to Amanda Knox, it's still hard to reconcile the fresh-faced honor student from Seattle with the sexually rapacious killer convicted of the November 2007 murder of her British roommate. Few Americans have heard all of the powerful evidence that convinced a jury that Knox was one of three people to sexually assault Meredith Kercher, brutalize her body, and cut her throat. In Angel Face, Rome-based Daily Beast senior writer Barbie Latza Nadeau who cultivated personal relationships with the key figures in both the prosecution and the defense describes how the Knox family's heavy-handed efforts to control media coverage distorted the facts, inflamed an American audience, and painted an offensive, inaccurate picture of Italy's justice system. An eye-opener for any parent considering sending a child away to study, Angel Face reveals what really went on in this incomprehensible crime. I certainly was hoodwinked by several American news magazine stories (like 20/20 and Dateline) into believing that Knox was innocent. But after reading several blogs to the contrary, I believe she's quite guilty. Barry, are you aware of this case and, if so, can you give us Europe's reaction to it?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Barry: what can you tell us of Europe's reaction to Amanda Knox?
I don't know who Amanda Knox is and don't care. Most Europeans I know wouldn't know or care, either. To be honest, if you had asked me this question a week ago, I would have said that I simply don't understand Americans' fascination with media-fueled crime stories. But now I've been stuck in my hotel room for extended periods of time waiting for conference calls with only my TV and remote control to amuse me, and I understand better. The programming on American TV is so bad that the crime stories on the news are often more entertain- ing. :-) The worst so far is Bad Girls Club, which seems to be what they call a reality show in which they pit seven or eight megabitches against each other for several days to see who can dirty-trick the others out of the running for Big Bitch. Horrific. I must admit to not having discovered anything I wasn't watching already that I feel like continuing to watch. I did watch a few more old episodes of Bones, and have come to like Zooey Deschanel's sister Emily. Not enough to keep watching the series, but she seems to be a better actress than Zooey. And they could easily both be TM meditators, so that may even reduces my anti-TM quotient. Since my friends here can't get together with me until 10:00 tonight, I'm looking forward to watching the resuming series Fastforward to see whether they'll be able to come up with anything interesting. But I haven't been able to make it through more than 2 or 3 minutes of *any* news show. Enough to realize that FOX is even more over-the-top than I thought it was, and that sadly most of the others aren't that far behind. So I'm really not the person to ask about some news story personality. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: The following is from amazon.com's product description of the book Angel Face: the true story of student killer Amanda Knox: Despite all the airtime devoted to Amanda Knox, it's still hard to reconcile the fresh-faced honor student from Seattle with the sexually rapacious killer convicted of the November 2007 murder of her British roommate. Few Americans have heard all of the powerful evidence that convinced a jury that Knox was one of three people to sexually assault Meredith Kercher, brutalize her body, and cut her throat. In Angel Face, Rome-based Daily Beast senior writer Barbie Latza Nadeau who cultivated personal relationships with the key figures in both the prosecution and the defense describes how the Knox family's heavy-handed efforts to control media coverage distorted the facts, inflamed an American audience, and painted an offensive, inaccurate picture of Italy's justice system. An eye-opener for any parent considering sending a child away to study, Angel Face reveals what really went on in this incomprehensible crime. I certainly was hoodwinked by several American news magazine stories (like 20/20 and Dateline) into believing that Knox was innocent. But after reading several blogs to the contrary, I believe she's quite guilty. Barry, are you aware of this case and, if so, can you give us Europe's reaction to it?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Barry: what can you tell us of Europe's reaction to Amanda Knox?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: I don't know who Amanda Knox is and don't care. Most Europeans I know wouldn't know or care, either. Interesting. Most media accounts I've read or seen here specifically said that the Amanda Knox case was gripping all of Europe. Anther thing they got wrong, I suppose. To be honest, if you had asked me this question a week ago, I would have said that I simply don't understand Americans' fascination with media-fueled crime stories. But now I've been stuck in my hotel room for extended periods of time waiting for conference calls with only my TV and remote control to amuse me, and I understand better. The programming on American TV is so bad that the crime stories on the news are often more entertain- ing. :-) The worst so far is Bad Girls Club, which seems to be what they call a reality show in which they pit seven or eight megabitches against each other for several days to see who can dirty-trick the others out of the running for Big Bitch. Horrific. I must admit to not having discovered anything I wasn't watching already that I feel like continuing to watch. I did watch a few more old episodes of Bones, and have come to like Zooey Deschanel's sister Emily. Not enough to keep watching the series, but she seems to be a better actress than Zooey. And they could easily both be TM meditators, so that may even reduces my anti-TM quotient. Since my friends here can't get together with me until 10:00 tonight, I'm looking forward to watching the resuming series Fastforward to see whether they'll be able to come up with anything interesting. But I haven't been able to make it through more than 2 or 3 minutes of *any* news show. Enough to realize that FOX is even more over-the-top than I thought it was, and that sadly most of the others aren't that far behind. So I'm really not the person to ask about some news story personality. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: The following is from amazon.com's product description of the book Angel Face: the true story of student killer Amanda Knox: Despite all the airtime devoted to Amanda Knox, it's still hard to reconcile the fresh-faced honor student from Seattle with the sexually rapacious killer convicted of the November 2007 murder of her British roommate. Few Americans have heard all of the powerful evidence that convinced a jury that Knox was one of three people to sexually assault Meredith Kercher, brutalize her body, and cut her throat. In Angel Face, Rome-based Daily Beast senior writer Barbie Latza Nadeau who cultivated personal relationships with the key figures in both the prosecution and the defense describes how the Knox family's heavy-handed efforts to control media coverage distorted the facts, inflamed an American audience, and painted an offensive, inaccurate picture of Italy's justice system. An eye-opener for any parent considering sending a child away to study, Angel Face reveals what really went on in this incomprehensible crime. I certainly was hoodwinked by several American news magazine stories (like 20/20 and Dateline) into believing that Knox was innocent. But after reading several blogs to the contrary, I believe she's quite guilty. Barry, are you aware of this case and, if so, can you give us Europe's reaction to it?
