In the wake of a sensationalized 1935 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl.
"In the wake of a sensationalized 1935 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl."@en
"In 1935, when Erma Morton, a beautiful, educated young woman, is charged with the murder of her father in a remote Virginia mountain community, the case becomes a cause célèbre for the national press. They need tales of rural poverty to give their Depression-era readers people whom they can feel superior to. While they spin their manufactured tales of squalor, Carl Jennings, a local journalist fresh out of college reports what he sees: an ordinary town and a defendant who is probably guilty. But who will believe a local cub reporter whose stories contradict the nation{u2019}s star journalists? Adventure, Thriller and War Stories."
"In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl."
"In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl."@en
"Covering the trial of a young woman accused of murdering her father, journalist Carl Jennings runs afoul of the veteran reporters also covering the case and soon discovers the real meaning of "truth.""
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