Saturday, June 21, 2003
{sigh} It didn't improve. The defense and their witnesses pretty much tried to defend Blair by trying to change things so they were the prosecution for a program called Saddam Hussein on Trial. Sadly towards the end the actual prosecution started going that way as well.
I'm not particularly impressed by these ... On Trial programs. Each witness only gets a couple of minutes for each side and is allowed to get away with the most fallacious arguments that, if this were a real court of law, they would get severely admonished for (and both sides were guilty of this to a certain extent). I would prefer a longer program, where evidence isn't curtailed to make way for car ads, and where some effort is made to make sure the witnesses treat the exercise as a real trial.
I'm not particularly impressed by these ... On Trial programs. Each witness only gets a couple of minutes for each side and is allowed to get away with the most fallacious arguments that, if this were a real court of law, they would get severely admonished for (and both sides were guilty of this to a certain extent). I would prefer a longer program, where evidence isn't curtailed to make way for car ads, and where some effort is made to make sure the witnesses treat the exercise as a real trial.
