I was looking forward to a mature discussion of Blagojevich's prosecution. At the time, I didn't follow the story very closely, but from what little I did read, I didn't understand the theory of the prosecution's case: while maybe distateful, it sounded like Blagojevich's actions were the kind of ordinary horse-trading upon which most successful political careers are built. At the time, I thought the media was just unfairly reducing, sensationalizing, and trivializing the story to "look, BAD MAN!"
MAYBE the prosecution presented evidence to support conviction of some criminal act. After wasting the time to watch this entire episode, though, I STILL don't know the answer to that question.
I was impressed with the over-all production quality of the episode. Other than that, though, I regret investing the time to watch this surface treatment of an important and, perhaps, tragic topic.
I leaned my lesson. Rather than entrust my time to this production team in the future, I will just do my own research on matters that interest me. In this case, I will try to find trial transcripts online.
From the title of this series, I thought that there would be an effort to expose the lazy, and sometimes dangerous, journalism that accompanies "trial by media." I don't know about any other episodes, but in this case, the producers had no more respect for their audience than do the puff-peddlers who push...ummm...shallow, misleading trials by media.