They should be focusing on the proceedings in the courtroom, and the camera is a big distraction. It was not the camera that behaved badly at his trial. It was the pundits who continued to pronounce him guilty. The press is often blamed for its behavior whenever it covers a high-profile case. But Bailey said there is little reason for the most of the negative criticism.
Any trial can avoid becoming a media circus, at least inside the courtroom.
With a good judge and a well-selected jury you can get by all that. David Saxe agrees. He is a former trial judge in civil and criminal courts who now sits on the State Appellate Division bench in New York County. He has presided over several televised trials and believes they are good for the judicial process as well as the public's right to know. Judges tend to be more careful when there's a camera in the court.