Trial By Media Slim Case

Lyssa Grant Hughes (Christine Lahti, "Chicago Hope", 2001 Golden Globe nominee for this role) has given blood, sweat and tears to build a name for herself as an educator. As a respected physician promoting women's health issues and fighting for women's rights, she has decided to set her sights on a career in politics. When a family friend tips a reporter about a minor indiscretion in her past, Lyssa's campaign quickly becomes the focus of a media feeding frenzy. Desperate for headlines and ratings, the press will stop at nothing to find a scandal and destroy her reputation. Denounced by the newspapers as a spoiled, out-of-touch aristocrat, dismissed as selfish by the talk shows, Lyssa's only hope is her father, a powerful politician. When he rallies his spin doctors and consultants to rescue her, Lyssa is forced to make a choice . . . speak her mind and preserve her self-respect at the risk of losing the election, or swallow her pride to play the media's game. Either way, she loses something precious.