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Pot Calling Kettle
The murder in Italy of British student Meredith Kercher provoked a feeding frenzy of prurient speculation from the press. The sad tale came with an irresistible cast of characters: The beautiful star student, an African barman wrongly accused, a drugged-up black guy who fled to Germany, a posh Italian boy playing dangerous games and most spectacular of all, an apparent femme fatale in the shape of Meredith's American flatmate Amanda "Foxy Knoxy" Knox.
New evidence is said to have thrown the police's previous line of enquiry in a new light: The Daily Mail covers the latest developments, noting (see our screen grab above) that two of the three prime suspects "so brazenly condemned by police as guilty are anything but."
Ah yes. The bumbling foreign cops, staple characters in British reporting, were mysteriously absent. And as for the "brazenly condemned" Foxy Knoxy, well it wasn't only the Italian police who had tried and found her guilty.
What about the British press, where Ms Knox has been the focus of a witch hunt of embarrassing proportions?
We've read about her "wild raunchy past", how she might have robbed Meredith to buy drugs, threatened an Albanian with a knife, revealed a detail "only a killer would know", was at the scene of the murder, lied repeatedly about her whereabouts on the night of Meredith's death and how she and her boyfriend went shopping for "sexy lingerie" the day after Meredith was murdered.
Where has all this fevered speculation been published in mouth-watering detail? Err, in the Daily Mail. Seems as if the Italians aren't the only ones brazenly condemning this woman.
