Last week marked the tip-off of suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell’s trial, complete with a 21st-century media frenzy.
Evidently in the name of journalism, Cleveland print and TV outlets have deposited reporters throughout the courthouse, live tweeting the proceedings so that the rest of us might stay on top of the painful play-by-play.
And by painful, we mean painfully boring. Really. Really. Boring.
Want to know what Sowell is wearing? What courtrooms smell like? What type of bread is caught between Judge Ambrose’s teeth after lunch? These tidbits and more can be gleaned from the Twitterverse. Without naming names, here’s a charmingly ungrammatical smattering of what passes for a day of work for some reporters:
This article appears in Jun 8-14, 2011.