His Lordship’s fair lady took out her frustrations on the ink stained wretches and electronically enabled members of the fourth estate on Monday, as Lady Barbara Amiel Black, wife of Lord Conrad Black of Crossharbour and the colonies blew her stack at those pesky intruding journalists.
As a couple of overzealous reporters’ pigeon holed her in her elevator at the Chicago courts during a break in the trial of her husband, Lady Black roared at them about their journalistic ethics.
Reportedly uttering a number of epithets including references to questionable sexual morals and a relationship with rodents, Lady Black who is normally rather cool as a cucumber became one red hot mad Lady of Peerage.
She recounted her early days as a reporter herself and how she would never stoop so low as to ambush a subject on a doorstep (or an elevator we assume), perhaps reflecting back to a kinder gentler time of Journalism as produced by her husband and his many journalistic experiments.
Her loss of discipline came as his Lordship’s case went into adjournment, with his lawyers making noise about concerns over a tainted jury pool, that after one of the selected jurors neglected to show up for work and a day after the prosecutions’ star witness was provided with a deal of sorts. David Radler, former Black confidant and appearing in the role of star witness for the prosecution, was given a 29-month sentence and fined US$250,000, in exchange for his co-operation with prosecutors. He is expected to testify against Black, in exchange for the reduced sentence.
Black is on trial for a number of fraud related charges and if convicted could very well spend the rest of his life in jail. Which would no result in a few more choice thoughts for the media horde from Lady Black.
As a couple of overzealous reporters’ pigeon holed her in her elevator at the Chicago courts during a break in the trial of her husband, Lady Black roared at them about their journalistic ethics.
Reportedly uttering a number of epithets including references to questionable sexual morals and a relationship with rodents, Lady Black who is normally rather cool as a cucumber became one red hot mad Lady of Peerage.
She recounted her early days as a reporter herself and how she would never stoop so low as to ambush a subject on a doorstep (or an elevator we assume), perhaps reflecting back to a kinder gentler time of Journalism as produced by her husband and his many journalistic experiments.
Her loss of discipline came as his Lordship’s case went into adjournment, with his lawyers making noise about concerns over a tainted jury pool, that after one of the selected jurors neglected to show up for work and a day after the prosecutions’ star witness was provided with a deal of sorts. David Radler, former Black confidant and appearing in the role of star witness for the prosecution, was given a 29-month sentence and fined US$250,000, in exchange for his co-operation with prosecutors. He is expected to testify against Black, in exchange for the reduced sentence.
Black is on trial for a number of fraud related charges and if convicted could very well spend the rest of his life in jail. Which would no result in a few more choice thoughts for the media horde from Lady Black.
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