Jamie said... (snip)
 The same law that protects the young offender's identity does NOT protect 
the victim, and just as in your American media, we end up putting the 
victims on trial because their past histories are open season. With the 
young offenders, even their past crimes are not admissable as a means to 
establish violent history or reckless patterns.

As much as I agree with the loathsome behaviour of the US media, our laws 
are not the solution either.


      Jamie, Sorry to hear that.  Perhaps, you still have less of a "copy
cat" impact in Canada but have obvious other legal problems and issues with
the media in terms of their intrusion on the victims.  I was afraid there
might not only be a silver lining to the story...
I used to think it was an easy cop out to blame the media for societies
troubles but I more and more see them as having "some" culpability.

Thanks for the info, 
Steve