Lance Ito Quotes


"And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know."
- Lance Ito
(Related: Truth, American, Measure, Public)

"I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom."
- Lance Ito
(Related: Opportunity, Evaluate)

"I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that."
- Lance Ito
(Related: Time, Controversy, Evaluate, Media, News, Result)

"If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there."
- Lance Ito
"If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public."
- Lance Ito
(Related: Truth, Measure, Public)

"The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases."
- Lance Ito
(Related: Trust, Consideration, Effect)

"Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there."
- Lance Ito
"The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works."
- Lance Ito
(Related: American, Being, Day, Public, Value)