m00c0w
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My point is more that this isn't a closed door trial with no media allowed and everything kept under seal throughout. If her goal is to hide bias or keep things (whatever that may be) under wraps, she's doing a pretty terrible job considering everything will still be on the record and also heard by journalists that can still report on it.The huge cost of purchasing the transcripts would be a restriction to the common person. We have to wait for the lawyers or a big media corp to buy them first and then share them with the public.
The expectation that a normal person would sit down and read through hundreds of pages of transcripts is also a restriction.
Audio and video is by far more accessible for the common person if a court was committed to transparency in the court room.
MOO
Plenty of trials are held every day, sometimes for quite heinous offenses, that aren't televised. It's not a spectator sport, and the public has zero say on the proceedings to begin with. If there are serious issues that lead to appeal, these will all be based off of things like official transcripts and evidence, not MurderSheets' livetweets, for example.
Honestly, IMOO, the likely concern is that there is a lot of sensitive content in this court case and the defense team already has a pretty rough history with things like crime scene photos getting leaked. The last thing the judge wants to happen is a sensitive photo gets "accidentally" left in a slideshow or out on a desk, and there's no reeling that back in with a video livestream. The damage will already be 100% done and cannot be undone.
JMO