But I know that my wrongful convictions, and my trials, became the story that people obsessed over. I know they’re going to call it “the Amanda Knox saga” in perpetuity. I can’t change that, but I can ask that when people refer to these events, they make an effort to understand that how you talk about a crime affects the people involved: Meredith’s family, my family, my co-defendant, Raffaele Sollecito, and me.
I remember hearing about Amanda Knox and the murder of Meredith Kercher in the late 00's. What I can remember most about the case was that Knox was a college student that was unjustly convicted of murdering Kercher. The media took the story by storm and it seemed like a soap opera drama.
In this article, Knox states, "To the world, I wasn’t a suspect innocent until proven guilty, I was a cunning, psychopathic, dirty, drugged-up whore who was guilty until proven otherwise". This goes to show how responsible the media is and how much power they have when giving a person an identity in the public spotlight.
Knox has been able to somewhat recreate her image by exclaiming her innocence and being let free rightfully so. By trying to "grab the bull by the horns", with the bull being the media, Knox is trying to educate those to not always jump to conclusions before it can ruin someone's identity.
This article and "saga" reminds me of a film I saw recently about another trial-by-media. That movie is Richard Jewell, which is based on Richard Jewell and the 1996 Olympic bombing. The media assumed Jewell was the bomber, when Jewell was innocent.
For Knox, the nightmare may continue with being a media victim. As Knox said, "Even the tiniest choices people make about how to refer to newsworthy events shape how they are perceived." Hopefully, she continues to use her voice to combat trial-by-media.