Comments on: New Book on Amanda Knox Addresses Sensationalistic Media Coverage

By: Susanna

Susanna — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 11:32:46 +0000

I think you are mistaken about the video, Christie: There was no audio. The shopkeeper told police that he had overheard Amanda and Rafaelle talking, but he did not speak English, so how could he have understood? Whatever audio you remember was not Amanda and Rafaelle speaking–must have been Italian news voice-over.

By: Susanna

Susanna — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 11:29:35 +0000

I think you are mistaken about the video, Christie: There was no audi. The shopkeeper told police that he had overheard Amanda and Rafaelle talking, but he did not speak English, so how could he have understood? Whatever audio you remember was not Amanda and Rafaelle speaking–must have been Italian news voice-over.

By: christie

christie — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:52:18 +0000

There was actually a video of Amanda and Sollecito in the shop the morning she bought new underwear; I saw this video, here in Italy, which included audio. This was not fabricated. She was completely without remorse and was joking with Sollecito, in front to the sales clerk, about they sexy/sexual plans she had planned for him later. I am an American professor of mass media and I followed the events very closely. In terms of the Italian media being much more ‘limited,’ journalists in Italy/Europe provide facts, but also analysis and insight, wheras in the States, the striving for ‘objective’ journalism–simply providing statements from opposing parties without going any deeper–can make it difficult for readers to arrive at the ‘truth.’ News coverage was sensational in the States as well, and the news media only became interested in the case after Knox was sentenced. Libby Purves, writing for the New York Times, said “both evidence and reconstruction look pretty convincing” and described the American [media]campaign for Amanda Knox as “almost libellously critical of the Italian court”.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:53:44 +0000

By all means read the sentencing report–it’s the best thing the defense has going for it. You will go to the Massei report looking for a smoking gun. You will end up being outraged and thinking it is the biggest intellectual embarrassment you have ever seen.

Then go and read Amanda’s and Raffaele’s appeals documents. They are devastating to the prosecution.

By: Steve Graham

Steve Graham — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:51:56 +0000

Thanks Harry

By: Harry Rag

Harry Rag — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:55:21 +0000

The English translation of Judge Massei’s sentencing report can be downloaded from here:

http://www.perugiamurderfile.org/viewtopic.php?p=53735

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:07:34 +0000

Skip Barbie Nadeau’s book. That writer is guilty of all the same problems this article criticizes and then some. Nadeau’s coverage of the case was shockingly poor and included such basic errors of fact that even a cursory attempt to confirm the information would have shown it to be false.

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:20:03 +0000

I suggest You read Barbie Nadeau’s book “Angel Face” as well. It may give you further insight.

By: Patrick King

Patrick King — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:40:09 +0000

Thank you, Mr. Graham, for your forthright review of Murder In Italy. I am unable to accurately express my fury over the plight of Amanda Knox. I am especially enraged at the fact the government of the United States of America is helpless to protect its citizens from this type of barbaric abuse when traveling abroad. You do not mention that Ms. Knox and Mr. Sollecito were convicted on evidence termed LNC DNA. Such organic samples are too degraded to be tested with any certainty. They would not be produced as evidence in any US or UK courts. What the case of Amanda Knox proves is that we all need a World Court to hold every nation to specific standards of evidence and evidence collection especially when prosecuting foreign visitors for sensational crimes. The rush to judgment in the murder of Meredith Kercher was a tragic error. The unwillingness of the Italian Judicial System to correct this error even when they have an eye witness to the crime, Rudy Guede, in custody compounds the error. Encouraging this perpetrator to resign his original arrest statement in favor of one implicating Knox & Sollecito and thereby cutting his 30 year sentence in half makes the Italian Judiciary party to the crime.