How The Public Relations Campaigns Misled Millions, To Society’s Great Cost

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Just speculating; but, being PR, David Marriott would have surely known about body language; and I wonder if he would watch Amanda Knox doing interviews and regret what he did. Because I’ve never seen one AK interview in which she doesn’t look FAKE. As David Mulhearn put it in his excellent essay recently.

Comments by some of those duped by David Marriott the PR creep who orchestrated this appalling media campaign:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6401173984792186880

A correction here. He did not care about truth and justice. He tried to intimidate journalists who didn’t toe the FOA’s party line, starting with Seattle’s Charles Mudede.

According to Roberta Glass, the letter that was sent to Oprah Winfrey was very persuasive, but half of it was lies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvXgCzbC6u8&t=25s

This is one thumbnail of the PR version of events:

Amanda Knox had never been trouble with the police. In days following Meredith’s murder, she voluntarily stayed behind to help the police in Perugia, but all Meredith’s friends left immediately.

She was called to the police station on 5 November 2007 where she was subjected to an all-night interrogation. She wasn’t provided with an interpreter or given anything to eat or drink. She was beaten by the police and asked to imagine what might have happened.

During her questioning, Knox made a statement that said she had a “vision” she was at the cottage when Meredith was murdered.

There were only two tiny pieces of DNA evidence that implicated her, but they were probably contaminated.

The knife from Sollecito’s kitchen doesn’t match any of the wounds on Meredith’s body. Prosecutor Mignini claimed Meredith was killed as part of a satanic ritual and he called Amanda Knox a “she-devil”.

Rudy Guede was a drifter and drug dealer with a criminal record. He left his DNA all over Meredith and all over the crime scene. Amanda Knox didn’t know Rudy Guede.

Fair enough. Clearly some people will do anything for money.

Hi Machine & DavidB

Spot-on short summary by the Machine. I might have added something about Knox 1.0 and Knox 2.0 because Marriott made the Knox persona do a U-turn after the trial and its the Knox 2.0 victim on steroids that too many are still smitten with now. But its pretty good.

I wonder if the slow but sure nailing of the great lie put pressure on Marriott and affected him prior to his death. If so, more of the Curse Of Knox.

You know this of course:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/

BUT also this.

http://www.storyit.com/Classics/Stories/tortoisehare.htm

Marriott’s angle as the Machine summarized looks increasingly foolish. This is a case rock-solid provable, more than almost any other in the world, but he deliberately remained ignorant of it.

So now Knox is caught up in this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reap_the_whirlwind_(phrase)

Alternately this:

http://www.salmonriver.com/words/nancy/wormturns.html

So what is in the Machine’s box up there is now a millstone around Knox’s neck, as not one part of it stands up. Marriott’s strategy has never evolved - hard to see any way it CAN evolve. Just plain dumb.

See how Knox has fallen back on “Well, it was a nasty prison, and anyway the media were mean” ?!

A freed death row inmate-turned-innocence-speaker who seemingly made a ton of money out of his public speaking, and loved the fame, is back behind bars.

http://www.wwlp.com/world/freed-death-row-inmate-turned-speaker-is-back-behind-bars/1176805005

Netflix hero Steven Avery was also exonerated and then put away, for a murder he remains locked up for now. Not a bad summary of his case here.

https://crimeola.com/steven-avery-wiki-murderer-conspiracy-victim/

As with Knox, the Netflix report was pretty partial to him, but so easy to shoot down it did not help. Late last year, he was denied a new trial.

And now a counter-documentary on Avery, by Shawn Rech, who I mentioneds to Whaswisdom here the other day might make THE movie of Meredith’s case.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40535358/new-making-a-murderer-series-to-tell-other-side-of-the-story

Where next:

Or to next entry Demonizations By Knox: Trashing Of Many Fine Italians - But Only In English

Or to previous entry Curt Knox PR Manager David Marriott’s Legacy; Did He On Balance Help Or Hurt AK?