With all this Breaking News talk about the capture of Eric Robert Rudolph, there doesn’t seem to be ANY mention whatsoever about the man most ruined by the media of all time: Richard Jewell. If you’ll take a step back to 1996, he was a security guard falsely implicated by the media for the Atlanta Olympic Park bombings after the FBI questioned him. I think that the FBI is pushing it under the rug, and the media is really embarassed about breaking story that at the time had no credibility. I would really like to see another (or maybe this would be the first) apology to Richard Jewell from the news agencies on the air in light of recent developments. Afterall, they were responsible for ruining Jewell’s life (he only got one cheesy, low-pay book deal out of it!).
On a slightly unrelated subject, while I was searching for links, I came across this link for CNN’s Olympic Park Bombing special page. Talk about a blast from HTML’s past!