Blago!

You didn't see/read the stuff the that he did. Pure corruption. Just like the one he replaced.

Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is accused of fraud.

This is the first episode in this series that I didn't particularly enjoy, it didn't have the impact or shock value of the last few episodes.

You'd have to be incredibly naive if you didn't think such goings on occur in politics, particularly in American politics where money is key, exposed to huge sums of money, it must be incredibly tempting to get mixed up in the wrong things.

I didn't think there was a huge story here, compare his crimes to that of the crimes of the men in the previous episode, it felt like they were scraping the barrell somewhat.

He does have some great hair.

You could easily pass this one by, 5/10.

I know bribery is a serious crime and it effects our government, but it's so expected that a whole episode dedicated to it was like "who cares". Though the episode fit the vibe of the show, it didn't carry the same weight.

I was looking forward to a mature discussion of Blagojevich's prosecution. At the time, I didn't follow the story very closely, but from what little I did read, I didn't understand the theory of the prosecution's case: while maybe distateful, it sounded like Blagojevich's actions were the kind of ordinary horse-trading upon which most successful political careers are built. At the time, I thought the media was just unfairly reducing, sensationalizing, and trivializing the story to "look, BAD MAN!"

MAYBE the prosecution presented evidence to support conviction of some criminal act. After wasting the time to watch this entire episode, though, I STILL don't know the answer to that question.

I was impressed with the over-all production quality of the episode. Other than that, though, I regret investing the time to watch this surface treatment of an important and, perhaps, tragic topic.

I leaned my lesson. Rather than entrust my time to this production team in the future, I will just do my own research on matters that interest me. In this case, I will try to find trial transcripts online.

From the title of this series, I thought that there would be an effort to expose the lazy, and sometimes dangerous, journalism that accompanies "trial by media." I don't know about any other episodes, but in this case, the producers had no more respect for their audience than do the puff-peddlers who push...ummm...shallow, misleading trials by media.