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They proceeded by not contesting the basic facts in the trial phase, is to hope to essentially build up credibility, and i think achieve some kind of catharsis so they have a better chance in the penalty phase. and obviously, you can't speak for the jury, but it did feel today there was a sense in boston from the coverage i read and the people i saw online talking about this, some sense of anguish, but some emotional catharsis associated with this verdict. >> catharsis is an interesting and very good way of describing what we're talking about, both in the courtroom and in the city of boston it...

Happen. >> here is a problem, too. if you have 234i experience in journalism at all, when you think something is obvious and i think you have everything nailed down in a developing situation, nine out of ten times, there is something you don't yet now that you're going to be wrong about. things were not couched enough in the ferguson coverage. you were right when you said the police aren't telling their side of the story. isn't it the media's responsibility to point out and speak on what have of those tlp balance. you don't just let one side overrun the other. >> yes yes and yes. let's have a ...

Thetory this week about sharon hellman with the board upholding her firing because they took some gifts, some pretty outrageous gifts. but i was so happy to see any coverage howie what happens with the va is an absolute outrage. americans everywhere should be outraged. we tell people would go in the military, we have all these bias things we say to them and we don't give them coverage. worse, the administrators are crooks. they don't do their jobs. >> this happened over and over and over again. there is an ig report covering 2006, 2007. these kinds of stories are going to come and go. i was no...

This. i agree with fred, at the end, it went crazy. snyderman, that's one of the reason people hate the press. the press doesn't think they have to follow quarantines and things like that. i think when you look back it's easy to say overkill, but essentially it started out doing its job correctly. >> i still think it got out of control. >> >>. >> you believe there was some benefit? >> i agree with my colleagues. they touched on the idea that there was so much media coverage made the government do a 180 in what it was trying to do to keep ebola out of this coverage. they weren't going to do any...

Didn't have time to cover these other stories. >> i hope we get some answers on this missing plane soon and it doesn't turn into another one of these 24-hour day speculation fefts. let me move on to ebola. was the punditry out of control? >> in my view it was not. in my view, it was the only thing wrong with the coverage both television and print was that every story should have started with and ended with you cannot get ebola unless it's transferred through body fluids. >> the deafening volume of all that coverage conveyed the impression that this was an epidemic that was going to rage across...