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Ecco l’intervista integrale a Mignini che il reportage della CNN avrebbe dovuto rispecchiare #1	Il reportage della CNN si può iscaricare da qui. L’intervista è stata tradotta in inglese dai seguenti membri di PMF: Clander, Yummi, Jools, Thoughtful, TomM e Catnip. 4’09’’ CNN: Ci sono state molte storie su questo crimine, su quello che la gente pensa che e’ successo. Cosa pensa lei che…	Skeptical Bystander	05/25/14	0
Ecco l’intervista integrale a Mignini che il reportage della CNN avrebbe dovuto rispecchiare #2	0’48’’ CNN: Non ha interrogato Amanda? 0’50’’ Mignini: Oh, l’ha interrogata la polizia. Io sono stato avvertito. Io volevo spiegare questo. Io mi ricordo che ero andato a dormire e mi chiama i dirigente della squadra mobile Profazio, perché mi dice : “˜ci sono degli sviluppi, Raffaele ha smentito in…	Skeptical Bystander	05/25/14	0
Ecco l’intervista integrale a Mignini che il reportage della CNN avrebbe dovuto rispecchiare #3	0’28’’ CNN: Sicuramente non ha fatto nessun segreto ad intimidire Preston e Mario Spezzi 0’49’’ Mignini: Cioè non capisco quale intimidazione. Dunque, allora guardi. Intanto questo procedimento vicino a Firenze non riguarda questa questione. Quindi questa questione non c’è. Allora, per quanto riguarda Mario Spezzi, e quindi poi vendo a…	Skeptical Bystander	05/25/14	0
What’s Nina Burleigh Got Against Women? A Bizarre Time Report Suggests Deep Problems In Her Psyche	We depart from our scheduled posting for a few hours to contend with a bizarre attack by Nina Burleigh. I get up quite early because my clients have a nine-hour head start on me. Today I woke up to the usual flurry of work-related emails plus a message directing me…	Skeptical Bystander	03/29/13	13	03/31/13
Knox PR Manager’s Premature Crowing, Years Before Judicial Process Ends	Fake News By Marriott™ At bottom here, please read the fine report by Heidi Dietrich on the lies-filled world of David Marriott. Now that the supertanker has pulled into port, the story about the creation of the narrative can finally begin to be told. We live in a world that…	Skeptical Bystander	10/22/11	34	10/25/11
Media Starting To Take A Closer Look At The Knox PR Shills With Nina Burleigh Exhibit One	Click on the image above for the report on the PR role of Nina Burleigh by the New York Times’s Kate Zernike. In the news media’s frenzy surrounding an Italian court’s decision last week to free Amanda Knox, the American exchange student convicted of killing her roommate in Perugia, the…	Skeptical Bystander	10/10/11	35	10/11/11
The Kercher Family And The Knox Family Go Their Separate Ways As The Tough Questions Mount	This report is cross-posted from my personal website where I may add more commentary later. 1) The Kercher Family The Kercher family had a press conference in Perugia this morning and then headed back to London. And Meredith’s father John Kercher had this reaction to yesterday’s news: While Amanda Knox’s…	Skeptical Bystander	10/05/11	35	10/08/11
Reflecting On Andrea Vogt’s Fine Report “Knox: Innocent Abroad Or “˜Getting Away With Murder’?”	Cross posted from my personal blog. Please click the image above for Ms Vogt’s new piece. In this intelligent and well-written piece, Andrea Vogt wonders aloud how Italians would react to an acquittal of the Seattle woman who was convicted in December 2009 of taking part in the killing of…	Skeptical Bystander	09/22/11	14	09/23/11
The Massei Sentencing Report For Knox And Sollecito: Part 1 Of A Summary In 4 Parts	Why This Long Summary The full Massei Report can be found here. The wiki page controversy surrounding the murder of Meredith Kercher rages on in a tiny corner of the online universe, here is our own contribution to the debate. It is a 4-part summary of the Massei report, the…	Skeptical Bystander	06/19/11	8	06/20/11
The Massei Sentencing Report For Knox And Sollecito: Part 2 Of A Summary In 4 Parts	The full Massei Report can be found here. Continuing on with our summary: 4. Morning of November 2 Accounts of the events of the morning of 2 Nov do not agree. According to Knox’s statement, she and Sollecito slept until around 10-10:30 am.[67] After a while, she decided to go…	Skeptical Bystander	06/19/11	0
The Massei Sentencing Report For Knox And Sollecito: Part 3 Of A Summary In 4 Parts	The full Massei Report can be found here. Continuing on with our summary: 7. Double DNA knife and bra strap Exhibit 36: The double DNA Knife Exhibit 36 is a 31 cm long knife with a 17 cm blade and a dark handle. It was seized from the kitchen cutlery…	Skeptical Bystander	06/19/11	0
The Massei Sentencing Report For Knox And Sollecito: Part 4 Of A Summary In 4 Parts	The full Massei Report can be found here. Continuing on with our summary: 9. Conclusions reached by the court The court concluded that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito had colluded with the main protagonist, Rudy Guede, in murdering Meredith Kercher and that this was in the context of a sexual…	Skeptical Bystander	06/19/11	9	06/22/11
Dear Ken Jautz Of CNN: Full CNN Interview With Mignini That CNN SHOULD Have Reflected #3	The previous post is here. CNN’s report is downloadable here. The first hour is here and the second hour here.. Our translators were PMF posters Clander, Yummi, Jools, Thoughtful, TomM and Catnip. 0’28’’ CNN: you certainly made no secret about intimidating Preston and Mario Spezi 0’49’’ Mignini: Well, I do…	Skeptical Bystander	05/24/11	19	05/26/11
Dear Ken Jautz Of CNN: Full CNN Interview With Mignini That CNN SHOULD Have Reflected #2	The previous post is here. CNN’s report is downloadable here. Our contexting and the first hour are posted here.. Final post Tuesday. Our translators were PMF posters Clander, Yummi, Jools, Thoughtful, TomM and Catnip. 0’40’’ English question [Translator’s note: These words are in English in the Italian transcript of which…	Skeptical Bystander	05/22/11	7	05/27/11
Dear Ken Jautz Of CNN: Full CNN Interview With Mignini That CNN SHOULD Have Reflected #1	Introduction: Judgment and credibility Candace Dempsey recently claimed that viewers would be able to “judge the credibility of Mignini [”¦] when CNN airs Murder Abroad: The Amanda Knox Story”. In support of her claim, Dempsey provided an excerpt of the interview at end of her reader blog entry of May…	Skeptical Bystander	05/20/11	15	05/22/11
Doug Preston’s Nasty Ant-Italy Anti-Mignini Campaign To Stir Bigotry Hits A Wall	[click for larger image] The Daily Beast has an excellent article on the unrelated case against Mr Mignini. A final verdict has now been postponed, pending testimony from four other witnesses. This charge has been a huge part of the US PR campaign waged by Marriott and the FOA (of…	Skeptical Bystander	07/02/09	2	07/03/09
The Second Misleading New York Times Comment On The Case By Egan	No prizes for guessing that this is Italy’s wonderful Venice. 1. Seattle-ite Egan Gets It Bady Wrong, Again Timothy Egan of the New York Times came back with a follow-up justification to his first post. The cat was out of the bag at that point, of course, and the first…	Skeptical Bystander	06/18/09	13	06/21/09
CBS Reporter’s Bizarre Claims About Prosecutor And Reporters	Peter Van Sant of CBS is the slightly confused-looking reporter in the images above and below. In promoting his “48 Hours” report tonight, which by all accounts seems intent on equaling CBS’s record for worst report on the case, Mr Van Sant has come out with an interview which is…	Skeptical Bystander	04/11/09	18	04/16/09
Influential Legal Talking Head Nancy Grace Of CNN Is Now On The Case	[Click the arrow above, and then drag the time button to the 5-minute mark.] Nancy Grace [image at bottom] runs a wildly popular CNN crime talk-show. It is the companion program to the wildly popular show of Jane Velez-Mitchell that is already on the Perugia case. A couple of days…	Skeptical Bystander	01/29/09	4	01/30/09
US NBC TV’s Fair And Factual “Mystery of Meredith’s Murder”	ï»¿ The consensus here is that the NBC Dateline presentation a few days ago was the most balanced US media treatment of the case to date. One of the first US network presentation, by CBS on its 48 Hours program, was particularly bad and the word is out now that…	Skeptical Bystander	12/16/08	19	12/18/08
Prison Movie Co-starring Knox Now In Slow-Motion Meltdown?!	For those already following the increasingly surrealistic run-up to the trial of the two remaining suspects indicted for alleged involvement in Meredith Kercher’s brutal murder, this will probably come as no surprise: Amanda Knox, one of the two suspects, has participated (some would even say she has the starring role)…	Skeptical Bystander	12/12/08	16	12/15/08
Ads By Google… Misreporting By Frank?! Money-Grubbing Commences at Perugia-Shock	Money turns Sforza’s head Sales and ad revenue is really what is driving so much of the very haphazard case reporting. And not only that of the newspapers. Also ad-driven websites, for example. Frank Sforza of the ad-driven Perugia-Shock site must have paid close attention when Candace Dempsey’s ad-driven site…	Skeptical Bystander	12/09/08	27	12/12/08
PR Shill Candace Dempsey Abuses The Real Victim Here	[Shots here are of Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s owner Hearst Media’s building in Manhattan[ When an article about a controversial subject manages to tick everyone off, this might mean the author has achieved a certain level of neutrality! Rachel Donadio’s brief article in the NY Times recapping the main developments in the…	Skeptical Bystander	10/02/08	16	10/05/08
Frank Sforza’s Perugia-Shock Blog: Approach With Caution	Frank Sforza called himself Frank Sfarzo for several years online. Editor’s note: Both Frank Sforza and Perugia Shock are long gone, both forced of the scene for legal reasons. Sforza had losing court caes in Perugia and Seattle. But for years after this post Sforza caused considerable havoc, not least…	Skeptical Bystander	09/17/08	1	05/31/14