15 minutes redux

[khaosworks]

Name in the papers, although they wrongly promoted me. I'm just a Magistrate, not a District Judge.

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[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

They've been doing this for years. I used to know the reporters on the crime beat pretty well as a Prosecutor and they at least got it right when I first went to the trial courts, but there's a whole new generation of reporters out there I don't know and can't really get to know because of my position.

[swisscheesed.livejournal.com]

No excuse for them. This is Reporting 101 stuff.

better to light a candle ...

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

That sort of shoddy reportage is all-too-common ... but still is inexcusable. Definitely, complain to the paper about any and all inaccuracies - otherwise, they'll never get it right.

But enough of cursing the darkness ...

Meanwhile, even if you, personally, don't feel you can do much outreach in your current position, that doesn't mean there's nothing that can be done.

The jurists in my area have formed a court-media subcommittee (inviting journalists, who by joining in get lots of prestige and unpaid work). The group has occasional cocktail parties where judges et al. mingle with the higher-ups in the local news media, but also puts together handouts for the tv and papers and such, with such vital info as *correct* names of courts, and names and titles of judges and magistrates and bail commissioners. It's helped a lot.

[swisscheesed.livejournal.com]

Good gravy, the vanilla chai from Dunkin' Donuts is too thweet.

My brain feels like the Electric Kool Aid Test.

Visions, man, I'm getting such visions.