Is the internet destroying juries?

Juries are a fundamental pillar of our justice system. But many believe that jurors are now routinely accessing and distributing so much prejudicial information online, that the very integrity of the system is in dangerIn 1670, two men named William Penn and William Mead stood trial at the Old Bailey, charged with sedition after leading Quaker prayer services in a London street. The judge, Sir Samuel Starling – also London’s Lord Mayor – was so incensed when the jury returned a not-guilty verdict that he had them all imprisoned.”You shall be locked up without meat, drink, fire and tobacco,” Starling is reported to have told the obstinate jury. “We will have a verdict, by the help of God, or you shall starve for it.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/26/juries-internet-justice