"If you’re a 19- or 20-year-old girl who is on the Internet, or who expresses herself in endless..."

“If you’re a 19- or 20-year-old girl who is on the Internet, or who expresses herself in endless journal pages like Amanda did, you may think you can explain yourself to the world if something goes wrong and you end up in the media spotlight. But your identity as a young, attractive woman does not belong to you. Amanda’s problem is that she thought she was a writer. She thought she was expressing herself. But in fact she was providing people with things they could cherry-pick to create her media persona.”

- Author Nina Burleigh on the Amanda Knox Trial - Read More on ELLE.com