"...Imagine, for a moment, what might be done for the world should the press devote such resources to a misery that could actually be fixed. Multi-nationals dodging tax. Political donations corrupting Parliament. Or dare I say it, deaths in custody."

"Rather, this was a case [Erin Patterson Mushroom Trial] in which the media had lit upon the ultimate gold seam. Mining the rapacious appetite for true-crime, bizarre...."