His statement of watching the entire trial makes sense to me. You're assumptions of what that would mean do not.
If the trial lasted for 14 courtroom days, with an average courtroom time of 6.5 hours -- knowing that lunch and other breaks are not courtroom time -- that comes to a total of about 91 hours of courtroom time.
The trial began on June 24. There are 19 days from the beginning of that trial and the
beginning of this thread.
91 hours of courtroom time, divided by 19 days =
4.7889 average hours of TV viewing during that time period.
That seemed really close to the statistical average TV viewing time for Americans, so I checked Nielson statistics. With 4 hours being the average American's viewing time, it doesn't even strike me as questionable that a person might spend that much time (less than 5 hours average per day) viewing something they were keenly interested in getting first-hand information about, in order to form an opinion for themselves.
I've done similar things myself on certain issues.
"Television Statistics
According to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day (or 28 hours/week, or 2 months of nonstop TV-watching per year). In a 65-year life, that person will have spent 9 years glued to the tube."
Television