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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Hugh Hewitt: Trial of the Century
Description: The coming trial in Georgia of former president Donald Trump and as many as 18 co-defendants will be the first “trial of the century” of the new millennium. The time to think about media coverage of it is now. “Trial of the century” was a pretty elastic phrase in the sensationalist 20th century. The question of Darwinism in the trial of John Scopes wore the mantle, as did the trial of atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. They were eclipsed by the unprecedented mass coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial following the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronal...