Brrrrr. We step out of the Warren Rudman Courthouse onto the ice-speckled sidewalk of Pleasant Street. A subzero breeze nearly pushes me off my feet.
“I’m not looking forward to trying to interview jurors outside the courthouse,” says one of the real reporters I’m headed to lunch with. “Yeah, sidewalk interviews,” agrees another. This mostly desk-bound blogger is very impressed!
I spent December 13 once again in Concord, NH, waiting for the verdict in James Tobin’s phone-jamming trial. (More about what happened there in my next post.)
My disappointment with celebrity journalists has received the strong antidote of meeting a bunch of real working journalists, whose curiosity, fair-mindedness, work ethic, and willingness to brave icy sidwalks in search of a story truly impressed me:
- John P. Gregg (Valley News)
- Judy L Harrison (Bangor Daily News)
- Eric Moskowitz* (Concord Monitor)
- Josh Roger (NHPR)
- Kevin Wack* * (Portland Press Herald)
* Check out Eric’s December 13 story, “Last pitches in phone-jamming case.”
* * Thought-provoking quote from Kevin Wack over lunch: “It’s hard to get outside the little demographic bubble you live in.”