Media Guardian examines (registration required) the ludicrous reconstructions of the Michael Jackson trial currently showing on Sky News.

In the article, British-born Fox reporter Derek Hayward laments the decision by Judge Rodney Melville to exclude TV cameras from the courtroom.

"I just don't know how we will cover this if it goes on for months," Hayward says.

"The story is going to become terribly boring, terribly quickly. It's a disservice to the public."

Nonsense.

By banning cameras from the court, Judge Melville has managed to salvage a tiny scrap of dignity in an otherwise grotesque celebrity circus.

The broadcasters may not like it, but Judge Melville deserves great credit.