I missed another 15 minutes…

I got an email from Brian Liu of Global Television National News with Kevin Newman regarding the Willy Pickton trial’s publication ban and bloggers. I guess I come up pretty high in Google for Pickton and Blog. I got the message too late in the afternoon to do anything about it but I sent him a note anyway. Here’s what I said:

Hi Brian,
Darn I missed your email. I hope you got what you needed from someone else. I would be happy to speak to you about blogging whenever you’d like. If another opportunity comes up I do have some opinions about this particular issue. Mainly, I do understand the need for a publication ban to ensure a free trial for someone during preliminary proceedings. However, once a jury has been chosen the details should be public regardless of the issue. If jury swaying via media is a concern then sequestering is always an option. It’s a tough question in this case as it is generating much public interest and there are the feelings of the victims’ families to contend with, but people want to know what happened. Gomery is a different animal altogether where the population of the entire country are the victims, and it seems a little shady that the federal government would want to prevent that information from coming to light seeing as they are the preceived perpetrators of the crime.

Anyway, there’s my rant. Thanks for thinking of me. Sorry I couldn’t get back to you sooner.
Mike Browne