Break Canada's
Pickton Trial News Blackout
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>>> Pig farmer Robert Pickton is currently on trial in Canada. He's facing fifteen first-degree murder counts relating to the disappearances of over 50 women from downtown Vancouver (a high-count serial-killing case that's been inexplicably ignored by the US media). Canadian law allows coverage of pretrials and trials to be blocked, and that's what has happened in this case. Much to the consternation of Canadian authorities, the US media isn't bound by these restrictions. Of course, this hasn't stopped the Vancouver police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police from saying that they'll be investigating stories on the trial published in Seattle media, particularly Websites. What they believe they can do to the US press is beyond me. But with the recent Australian court decision that says an Aussie can sue Dow Jones for an article published on the US company's US Website, anything is possible. Anyway, to break this info-blackout, The Memory Hole is offering its Canadian readers these media resources for trial news. |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local KIRO 7 (CBS) KOMO 4 (ABC) Q 13 (FOX) KING 5 (NBC) [registration required] |
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| posted 12 Dec 2002 | copyright 2002 Russ Kick |