That cameras should be allowed in the courtroom

Good evening chairperson ladies and gentlemen. As you have heard the topic for tonight’s debate is that “we should have cameras in the courtrooms.”

We agree/disagree with the definition given by the opposition.

Should – both the moral and the practical.

Cameras – a device for taking photographs or motion pictures.

Courtrooms – a room where a law court is held.

We should not have cameras in the courtrooms and we will continue to prove this to you. Tonight I will be speaking about, firstly, the use of cameras in the courtrooms as educators and how they mislead the pu

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The court's interest in protecting the individual’s rights as well as their personal safety must come before the mere convenience to the media and to the general public.

My second point was that the idea of having cameras in the courtrooms and televising the trials is impractical. In order to make this money they need ratings, how do they get these ratings? Through sensationalism. J Simpson criminal trial was broadcast because it educated the public on judicial proceedings or raised important social issues? It is important, above all, to remember what the judicial system is in place for, not education or spectacle or public entertainment, but justice. My first point tonight was that cameras in the courtrooms are not educators; television’s selective view of the judicial system gives the public a very partial, misleading picture of the courts and is the result of the public’s lack of confidence in the judicial system. Secondly, how cameras in the courtrooms are impractical. V stations will not broadcast trials because the owner of the station wants the public to be informed. The opposition may argue that it is not important that the entire case be shown. Through either not following a case in its entirety or simply viewing snippets of the trial, television audiences are mislead and form bias opinions based on the footage they view. Nothing could be further from the truth. This means trials, whereby the accused are high profile stars, such as Kobe Bryant, Michael Jackson and Martha Stewart. J Simpson and Lindy Chamberlain can last from any where between a couple of weeks, to a couple of months, to a couple of years before a verdict is reached, it is impractical to believe that displaying the entire court trial on television will ‘educate’ the public and inform them on judicial proceedings.

This leads me to my second point, having cameras in the courtrooms is impractical.

I would now like to point out __ discrepancies in the opposition’s case.

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