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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[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.