As a rule now, I do my best to watch the trial itself rather than trial coverage, or at least to read official court documents and transcripts. Even when they'

As a rule now, I do my best to watch the trial itself rather than trial coverage, or at least to read official court documents and transcripts. Even when they're trying to be honest, most media completely screws up reporting on trials. They love to do things like quote huge demands for damages ("x files a $BIGNUM lawsuit against y") that are almost always either never granted or substantially reduced later, print big headlines for suits that are almost surely meritless (SCO), etc. Mind you, I say "almost never" because there is that 1% of the time when $BIGNUM damages are actually granted, like the billion dollar Alex Jones trial. The later trillion dollar thing I don't know about, though, I'll wait to see how things play out in court and whether the awards stick on appeal (for the billion dollars, they actually might).