A wee story about my attitude to court reporting.
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The very first case I covered was in 2010, the perjury trial of Scottish politician Tommy Sheridan, and for the whole first week, not knowing any better I just wrote down exactly what happened (the judge came in, this guy said that etc, etc)
2
On the Friday of that week I added a comment about how sad it was that it had come to this, what a tragedy it was.
Then I went to the pub to decompress a little with the other reporters.
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In the pub an older reporter came up to me, he was a little "tipsy,"' and said he had liked my stuff up until the Friday, but didn't like today's report, I asked why?
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He replied "Because no-one gives a f*ck what you think, just tell us what happened."
Best bit of advice I ever got.
#Ends
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