Court TV has been top-notch in its coverage of the Derek Chauvin trial

The Week

"On the whole, after its first day of coverage, Court TV has earned its bragging rights," Jeva Lange says of the rebooted Court TV's "gavel-to-gavel" coverage of the cop accused of killing George Floyd. As she points out, Court TV has been deliberate in framing the trial around Chauvin and not Floyd. "Court TV has its own financial interest in the Derek Chauvin trial becoming a successful television spectacle, of course. The network is not an altogether altruistic player in the process," says Lange. "But the channel is doing something that nearly no one else is: Giving the pursuit of justice for George Floyd the undivided attention of its cameras and staff."