Amanda Knox is back home in Seattle after her four years in an Italian prison, and a scholar from New York University waxes eloquent for CNN: "There is something about pretty white girls, bloody knives and the slightest whiff of sex that gets the international news machine humming like nothing else." Gee, who knew? Apparently, the Knox saga has caused some in the media to go through one of their periodic bouts of pretend intrspection:
All this has left the press to ask, somewhat sheepishly: were mainstream theories about Knox's guilt driven primarily, as Slate.com's Katie Crouch argued last month, by our collective lust for a kinky tale?
I must not have gotten that memo. I can lust for a kinky tale with the best of them, but, honestly, I really haven't paid attention to this. I didn't have an opinion about her guilt while she was still incarcerated, and I still don't, so I have no opinion on her getting freed, either. And once you decide you don't really have to have an opinion about everything, it's sort of liberating.
Amanda Knox is a "pretty white girl"? OK, if you say so. Personally, I think she has a small, mean mouth, and her eyes are way too far apart. She looks like somebody who could get in a night of rough sex gone awry, doesn't she? Calling Nancy Grace, I think we have a miscarriage of justice here!
