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Article: Time of the court Jesters: too many of TV's legal "experts" don't know their habeas from their corpus.(Speak Easy)
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- Broadcasting & Cable
- Article date:
- April 11, 2005
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Before O.J., Martha, Michael Jackson or Robert Blake, there was a concept of bringing the trials of important legal cases to the eyes and ears of the public. Court TV, which was founded in 1991, was the first national carrier that showed gavel-to-gavel coverage of court cases "in the public interest."
We anchors were taught that our role was to provide balanced coverage, using traditional rules of journalism, where one talked of "on the one hand, on the other hand." Lawyers appeared as guests on both sides of the case so a full and fair airing of the issues could take place.
The commentators were the most well-known and well-respected attorneys in the ...