JonBenet Arrest: Notes

By Brian 

> MSNBC was the most aggressive cable net on the JonBenet arrest story, Multichannel News says. And much of the coverage “consisted of the network patting itself on the back for breaking the story…”

> MSNBC’s Milissa Rehberger hosted a 10pm special report, “JonBenet Ramsey: A Mystery Solved?” It reaired at 11pm, 1am and 2am…

> ABC’s Barbara Walters scored a phone interview with John Ramsey this evening. It aired live on Nightline…

> Bob Steele says news orgs should remember the lesson of Richard Jewell. Attorney Lin Wood represented both Jewell and the Ramseys; here’s what he said on MSNBC…

> Guests on HLN’s Nancy Grace used the word “extraordinary” six times in less than an hour. Guest host Jane Velez-Mitchell called it “so bizarre, so wild, and such an extraordinary development,” and a “tragedy of Shakespearean proportion.” Tom Foreman called it “spectacular and completely unanticipated…”

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