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• Review: Knox TV Special -

  The ABC TV Amanda Knox Prime Time Special with Diane Sawyer is over, and we can't call it Checkbook Journalism, because it wasn't any kind of Journalism whatsoever. It was a strictly promotional, hour-long commercial for her book.
  
  You know those guest spots on late night shows where [...]
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• Ben & Mark Go Social -

  What role has Social Media played
  in the Sanford Shooting Case involving
  Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman?
  
  CFTV Reporter John W Davis shares an illuminating video link featuring lawyers Mark O'Mara and Benjamin Crump who both address the question.
  
  Tomorrow will be an
  important' [...]
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• Popcorn Juries -

  Since much of the American trial-watching public has been following the Jody Arias trial, the upcoming Amanda Knox interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC TV is going to seem like a pale sequel in comparison. ABC has been running teasers lately to promote their exclusive.
  
  "Arias initially denied involvement" [...]
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• A Bit of a Browse -

  "The mystery of just why and how Jim Thompson disappeared, and by the agency of whom, is one that persists still and probably always will." Silk Thread by Larry Wallace.
  
  # John Le Carre's latest novel,
  A Delicate Truth, is reviewed by Mark Lawson.
  
  # [...]
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• Mail Crimes & French Lit Fest -

  For almost two decades toward the end of the Twentieth Century, a shadowy figure wearing a hoodie haunted America. Nicknamed the Unabomber, he sent mail bombs to college professors, computer geeks, scientists, and others.
  
  The iconic image of a shadowy figure in a hoodie came to be [...]
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• Worth Noting, However Briefly -

  The London Book Fair
  begins on Monday . . .
  
  What kind of publishing environment do today's
  young novelists encounter, asks Alex Clark.
  
  # Heather Mac Donald writes about the dangers
  represented by loiterers. Recommended. [CityJ]
  
  # Emily Rhodes reviews The Exiles [...]
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• Browsing Around -

  Cuban writer Jose Latour, now based in Canada, has a new mystery thriller novel out called Riders of Land and Tide. John Barber writes about him at the G&M.
  
  # Shocked by Patricia Volk is a coming of age story about the author's complicated relationship with an elegant [...]
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• After The Kissoff II -

  Then, we come to the issue of Geo Locating Cues. In the transcript of Zimmerman's conversation with the dispatcher, Zimmerman appears to have difficulty giving his location over the telephone.
  
  First, some system needs to be selected for orienteering, such as North East Quadrant or something else; then, [...]
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• After The Kissoff -

  Trayvon Martin - George Zimmerman
  
  The recent disclosure of a settlement reached between the HOA of The Retreat at Twin Lakes (or their insurance company) and the estate or birth parents of the itinerant teenager Trayvon Martin does not come as a surprising event in cases like this or [...]
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• Trayvon: Settlement Arranged -

  FL HOA Buys Off
  Itinerant Teen's Birth Parents . . .
  
  The administrative organization of the private property multi-residential estate at which Trayvon Martin was slain has opted for a financial settlement with Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, birth parents of the 17-year-old juvenile.
  
  The Retreat at [...]
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