Anyone remember Richard Jewell? He recently passed away.
Tom Sowell BUMP!
The perils of free speech are well known. The perils of unfree speech are well known to be much worse. I’m afraid the problems Sowell complains about cannot be remedied. They’re as essential part of our system, part of what makes it, as Churchill put it, the worst system ever invented - except for all the others.
There is much to be said for the British practice of limiting what can be reported in the media about someone on trial until after that trial is over.
I know this isn't the main point of the piece, but it's a freaking good point. I think this idea of forbidding names and ID's in the press until cases are resolved is a good one.
Dr. Sowell. Always brilliant. Always right.
The classic of guilt built up in the media was Ollie North .. and his appearance that shot that all to hell was the best televised Congressional hearings ever!
I dunno. Has Sowell ever had a bad column?