Obsession and the need to reserve judgment.
By: Hank Kalet
I don’t know what happened in that Colorado hotel room between Kobe Bryant and the hotel employee. The only people who know are Kobe and his accuser.
What I do know is that the coverage of the accusation and eventual charges follows the standard script the media uses when a big celebrity finds himself (or herself) at the wrong end of something like this.
Sheryl McCarthy offers this analysis in Monday’s New York Newsday of our obsession with the case and a plea for waiting for all the facts to come in before passing our own judgment. (Ellis Henican also weighs in with an interesting piece on the case.)