A slim majority of B.C. residents say they're interested in the media's coverage of Robert Pickton's murder trial, but most believe news organizations should refrain from reporting salacious details, while one in five say the media have reported "too much" about the case already, according to a poll to be released by the University of B.C. today.
The results of the poll, conducted by Mustel Group for the UBC School of Journalism's Feminist Media Project, found that 52 per cent of the 806 adults surveyed by telephone earlier this month said they are interested in media coverage of the case, compared with 46 per cent who said they are not.
Only one per cent said they are not aware of the trial.
Despite the split in public interest about the case, 53 per cent said the amount of coverage so far is "just right," though 21 per cent said there has already been "too much," according to the poll. Fifteen per cent said there has been too little coverage about the case to date, while the rest did not know.
Pickton's long-awaited trial begins at the New Westminster Courts today, and some 358 members of the local and international media have been accredited to cover the proceedings. Continued...
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