We all have a love hate relationship with the media I think..
Hate the media vultures who pray on others sadness.
Hate that they manipulate the way that life is portrayed..
Yet love the coverage of red carpet frocks..

I was reading the age this morning and came across this article. This incident has been in the news since 2002, and more so in the last year or so since the men involved have been on trial for the murder/manslaughter of a woman on board a cruise ship in 2002.

Anyway.

The last lines of this article raised a smile from me this morning. Think the journalist is making a comment here?

Guilty: I knew Brimble had been drugged
Geesche Jacobsen Crime Editor
June 30, 2009

A MAN who tried to revive Dianne Brimble on board the cruise ship Pacific Sky in 2002 admitted yesterday that he had been told later she had been given the drug GHB – gamma hydroxybutyrate – before she died.

Letterio “Leo” Silvestri pleaded guilty to concealing from police that he knew Mark Wilhelm had given her the drug, also known as fantasy, in their cabin.

Silvestri, 44, also pledged to give evidence at Wilhelm’s trial, due to start in September.

The District Court heard yesterday that Wilhelm is accused of the manslaughter of Mrs Brimble, and that the prosecution would allege he had committed a dangerous and unlawful act leading to her death, and had been negligent when being told she was unconscious and had defecated in his cabin.

While Silvestri did not tell police what he knew, he told them Mrs Brimble was “fat” and “ugly” and had ruined his holiday.

Silvestri, who appeared chubbier than two years ago, is due to be sentenced as early as today.