Friday, January 24, 2025
US’s Financially Beleagured Associated Press Again Shows Anti-Italy Pro-Mafia Bias
Posted by KrissyG
AP Reporting Update
Is the Associated Press on the take?! Hard to account otherwise for its perpetual strong bias on Meredith’s case. We have a full report in the works.
Colleen Barry, the ardant Amanda Knox fan-girl reporter who supplies the AP releases on Knox, has been filing heavily pro-Knox reports since 2013. That was already long after the trial, and the Massei sentencing report, which she clearly has never read.
She has never reported on the mafia angle though even the cautious Italian press has often openly reported on it. She has never even hinted at how the Hellman appeal court and the Maresca-Bruno appeal court and the Boninsegna calunnia court were bent.
She ignored the 500 or so false claims in Knox’s book. She reported none of the smoking guns on this page. She shows the legal aptitude of a newt. She is utterly at sea on ECHR.
Now she is failing Americans again in her latest laughable attempt to swing it for Knox. Her gushing pieces appear in worldwide media as syndicated articles which hundreds of outlets quote verbatim as their template.
For example, see this glowing AP press release put out by Barry, back in April 2024 re the then forthcoming calunnia trial, fawning over Knox with an overdose of sugary syrup and saccharine that is quite nauseating:
MILAN (AP) — Amanda Knox faces another trial for slander this week in Italy in a case that could remove the last legal stain against her, nine years after Italy’s highest court threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate.
Knox, who was a 20-year-old student when she was accused along with her then-boyfriend of murdering Meredith Kercher in 2007, has built a life back in the United States as an advocate, writer, podcaster and producer — with much of her work drawing on her experience.
Now 36 and the mother of two small children, Knox campaigns for criminal justice reform and to raise awareness about forced confessions. She has recorded a series on resilience for a meditation app and has a podcast with her husband, Christopher Robinson, and an upcoming limited series on her struggles within the Italian legal system for Hulu that has Monica Lewinsky as an executive producer.
...and continues in a similar cloying vein, with Lumumba, the victim of the crime - let’s not forget, not Knox - dropped in as merely a few words, a passing pesky footnote, to the proceedings at hand.
Colleen Barry’s favourite phrase in respect of all of this is that of “a case that could remove the last legal stain” from Knox.
Prior to yesterday’s final outcome, Barry was still using the term ‘taint’ that very morning to describe the presumed abomination Barry saw as being outrageously placed on Knox’s saintly head.
By yesterday evening, Barry - with the verdict in - had pulled words like ‘stain’ and ‘taint’ out of her articles, now that Knox is indeed irrevocably ‘stained’ and ‘tainted’ - Barry’s own words - by her serious criminal conviction.
So today, all the references to ‘stain’ and ‘tainted’ have been removed as we cannot have Colleen Barry’s object of admiration thus described. Barry then has to do her actual paid job, as a neutral journalist, of just reporting the facts (what a bore for her):
Judge Monica Boni read the verdict aloud in a courtroom that was empty except for a few reporters and guards. The lawyers for both Knox and the man she wrongly accused, Patrick Lumumba, had gone home during deliberations.
But Colleen Barry of AP cannot resist sneaking in a few fangirl words about Knox nonetheless, tacked on at the end, quoting Knox’ X-twitter message and displaying the whole image:
Knox called it a “surreal” day in a post on X.
“I’ve just been found guilty yet again of a crime I didn’t commit,” her post said. “And I was just awarded the Innocence Network Impact Award, ‘created to honor an exonerated person who raises awareness of wrongful convictions, policy issues, or assists others post-release.’”
As if Knox is not a confirmed convicted felon of a serious crime.
Oh dear. Amanda Knox and her keen admirer, Colleen Barry of AP, propagandist extraordinaire, just cannot understand - nor seemingly accept - the concept of the rule of law.
Sod Lumumba, the victim of her crime: in Colleen Barry’s world, who cares about him?
But Colleen Barry was forced to approach Lumumba for comment, given, hello, *that is her job* and so she had to reveal:
Reached by telephone, Lumumba said he was satisfied with the verdict. “Amanda was wrong. This verdict has to accompany her for the rest of her life,″ he said.
Shucks. That was really hard for Colleen Barry to write. It hurt.
Posted by KrissyG on 01/24/25 at 01:34 PM in Hoaxes Sollecito etc