Dear Editor:
Let us acknowledge that if we fairly scrutinize the Troy Davis and Amanda
Knox cases, we would see an example of present-day racism.
Knox’s case and family receive 24-hour-a-day coverage with the obvious
assumption that she is innocent and a victim of a miscarriage of justice.
Her parents have been so courted and interviewed by the mainstream (no longer
news) anchors that they are treated as friends and are called by their first
names.
Conversely, these media anc