1. I have this feeling that the people most inclined to trumpet the line "innocent until proven guilty" are the people who believe Kobe innocent, but wish to feign an aura of "fair and balanced"-ness. It's really only innocent in the eyes of the law until proven guilty. People are free to make up their own judgements. I wonder how many people maintained the stance of "innocent until proven guilty" in the O.J. Simpson case. Come to think of it, he's technically still not proven guilty. I wonder how many people trumpet his innocence.
2. Basketball players are not role models. That doesn't mean that they are excused from acting as model citizens because they are not "role models." When Charles Barkley said that he was not a role model, I think that the point was that the ideal model that people wanted to fit in was broken, not that people shouldn't act like him.
3. The Kobe Bryant is legitimate news. What is news? A combination of what people want to know about and what they ought to know about. I've resigned myself to the idea that celebrity crime is "news-worthy." It probably ought not be the lead story in the case of world events, but I have no doubt that there exist a significant number of people whose lives are impacted more by this case than by, to pick a random headline today, the governor of Utah being tapped to head the EPA.
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