packaged

[Jonathan Lighter]

It seemed pretty clear from the context that he meant the networks were the
experiencers of the "packaging" rather than the initiators.

Otherwise I wouldn't have bothered.


JL



On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> USAToday has an interesting article on how accommodating the court was in
> helping HLN package the trial for TV.
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> FWIW...
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> On Sunday, May 12, 2013, Victor Steinbok wrote:
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> > Choreographed, orchestrated, staged, etc. But the reference may also be
> > to media "packaging", i.e., presenting the trial in a particular way.
> > That is, the trial itself might not have been all that exiting, but it
> > was presented for TV audiences in a way to make them more interested, to
> > make them believe it was about the issues of the day. Since I have not
> > seen the original reference, I'm kind of stabbing in the dark here. But
> > I would not jump to assumptions that the court is the one "packaging"
> > the trial. Attorneys for either side occasionally do that--to make their
> > respective cases in the media. But usually it's not something that
> > happens by the mutual agreement of the parties involved, including both
> > sides and the court itself, as you seem to imply.
> >
> >      VS-)
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> > On 5/12/2013 11:27 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > > I hope this means "ideally suited."
> > >
> > > A CNN contributor says that the Jodi Arias trial was "packaged for
> > > television."
> > >
> > > Neither he nor anybody else has otherwise suggested that the Arizona
> > > justice system has stooped low enough to stage-manage or even simply
> > > advertise the trial to make it irresistible to the news media.
> > >
> > > "The Great Gatsby" is packaged. So far, murder trials are not.
> > >
> > > JL
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