In a major embarassment for Mainstream Media Inc (MSM INC), John Mark Karr has been freed and all charges dropped in the JonBent case.
Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. - Prosecutors abruptly dropped their case against John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey and released him Monday, saying DNA tests failed to put him at the crime scene despite his repeated insistence he killed the 6-year-old beauty queen.
The story served it's purpose though. The ruling on the illegality of the Domestic Wiretapping conducted by the Bush administration has been effectively buried. But the suprise dropping of all charges has taken the media by surprise. Their corporate backers were planning on this to carry them all the way through the mid-term elections. MSM Inc's Jerry Ratloff has the story:
For the local prosecutors to simply drop these charges makes a mockery of Freedom of the Press. We have a right to carry this story to it's conclusion and we have the right to say what that conclusion is.
A group
comprosed con prosed con prized made up of several mainstream media outlets, including Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN plans to appeal the decsion.
We are appalled at this decsion by the local Colorado authorites to drop this case. We've appealed to the FBI to take over the case from the obviously incompetent local authorites.
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Our lawyers will file a brief with the appellate court in Denver.
While the decision was made locally to drop the charges, the implications are national in scope. MSM Inc estimates that the total potential dead air time to fill between now and the November elections could reach into "thousands of hours."
This is no joke, those hours have been bought and paid for by coporate sponsors. The losses to the media could be in the millions of dollars.
More Ratloff:
Our clients will be challenging this decision to protect our right to report on this case, under every legal means available to us...and then some.
Meanwhile, we are pressing on with our efforts in the Aruban courts, to revive efforts to link Karr with the Natalie Holloway case.
Stay tuned.
Update [2006-8-28 20:56:5 by BentLiberal]: related diary
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