My normal life
Here, have a few random adventures from this reporter's life:- I walked into one of the local courtrooms today (which I don't actually do all that often) and there was one of my high school classmates. We took double and triple takes, then quickly managed to learn that one of us was a reporter and the other was there to testify in a forgery case. In other words, neither of us had gone to the criminal side.
- Some guy came into the newsroom last night, holding a copy of my blog column that ran almost two weeks ago. He was apparently pointing to it, asking where I got the information from, and saying it was illegal. Whether he was referring to the column or my blog is not known, but when the editor found out, his concern was that the guy was some kind of stalker-type. Ah, job hazards of a crime reporter.
- A man left me a voice mail, saying I should look into the fact that the city's downtown contamination cleanup is going to cost taxpayers and insurers millions of dollars, and that there's another area at the north end of town. He left no name or number but gave a few dollar figures and said his information "can all be confirmed" and should be investigated. That's all good and well, but, um, I've written nearly 100 stories about this contamination business. That's kind of like calling to say, "There's a rumor that Michael Jackson is under investigation for child molestation, and you should look into it," two days after the trial started.
(FYI: Comments are still disappearing into cyberspace. But if someone e-mails anything insightful, maybe I'll put it in the next blog entry.)
Posted by Layla at 11:27 PM, March 03, 2005
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