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Sam
June 16, 2013
The interrogation was actually six weeks after Jodi murdered her lover not one week.
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spotted couch
June 16, 2013
Thanks Sam. I struck out “a week” and have adjusted the time frame. For anyone else’s reference, the date of the interrogation was July 15th, 2008. I had originally “read” it as June 15th. At any rate, that makes it 5 weeks after Travis’ body was discovered on June 9, 2008.
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Sam
June 16, 2013
Correct, however he was murdered 6 weeks prior on June 4th not June 9th.
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Arbey Bill Conlon
June 16, 2013
Another well written and thought out article. Your perception is very mature and realistic, in a world of fantasy and delusion, of violence and narcissism running rampant. What really jumped off the page was this tidbit of reality: “… the trial judge over-turned the verdict saying that the prosecutors’ description of her “lifestyle” was so inflammatory that it deprived Sommer of a fair trial.”
It\s quite apparent to many who can apply critical thinking and ‘reality testing’ that fairness in this trial of Jodi Arias is non-existant. The misconduct hearings will be interesting to say the least. If Judge Stephens hears those arguments, it will all be swept under the carpet. I can’t vouch for a ‘objective, impartial judge’. One can have hope that the obvious bias in this trial is enough to warrent a re-trial or that all of the ‘cumulative’ evidence can be used for appeal. This case is wrong right from the investigation straight on up.
Another great article. I enjoyed reading your thoughts. :)
Bill
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spotted couch
June 16, 2013
Hi Bill,
I know I go about commenting on this trial a little differently than others. haha. But I am quite fascinated by how the mechanisms of our “visual culture” have operated with this trial (and others too). My background is in art so I tend to link a lot of these things back to my knowledge base. Thank you for reading and commenting! Lissa
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Pitchforks
June 16, 2013
Superb.
I love the way you link visual symbols (e.g. ribbons) and the visual arts with the reality of this trial and all its offshoots. Art is meant to make us reflect on and find insight about real life – it is an artifice created in order to help us understand and become more in touch with reality. Instead we now have pseudo-reality, whether in highly directed and scripted “reality” TV or in reality warped into more palatable myths mimicking art – especially fairy-tale fiction with, as you said, its archetypes. So instead of art symbolizing and reflecting reality we have “reality” representing a grotesque and low-brow form of “pop”-art.
Andy Warhol would be appalled.
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Sandra
June 18, 2013
You’ve illustrated so well the de-sensitizing of yet more human tragedy. What is left? Newborn babies depicted as evil savages of their mama’s boobies?
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geebee2 (@geebee_22)
August 14, 2013
Just found your article – “What this tells me is that many people are unable to discern reality from fantasy” Yup. Made the same point myself today here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/10237760/Why-do-all-my-friends-want-to-murder-their-husbands.html#comment-998570170
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spotted couch
August 14, 2013
Ha! Great article. That one is a keeper. Thanks for posting it here. Will be visiting and rereading that one again. Contemporary media culture certainly is fascinating. Stirs up all sorts of wonky ways of thinking. Fantasy is harmless as long as it doesn’t skew one’s perspective so much that real life is viewed through that spectrum.
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