Busted!
CODA: There will be no more liveblogging. As I left the courtroom for the lunch break, i was taken aside by a sheepish-looking court official, who said that he’d just learned that I had been “broadcasting†from inside the courtroom. So had I. Broadcasting, I said? I didn’t have a microphone, or a camera.
No, he explained: but liveblogging counts as broadcasting. It’s not the computer that’s the problem. You can type away on it all you want. If you step outside to send it, that’s okay, too. But if you send text from within the courtroom, that’s broadcasting.
Anyway, I gave him my solemn word that I would do no more broadcasting. What with the hearings being almost over and all. It seemed a fitting way to put a cap on the week.
Damn.
So, you step outside the courtroom and hit ‘Send’? Seems petty at that angle, no?
I can understand it thought. What if the blogger was blogging rnadom thoughts that the defense or plaintiff was reading live? That could cause some issue there…
Comment by Wayne — June 6, 2008 @ 4:34 pm
Awwwwww they just made that up…just like all the other “processes” we saw at play this week.
Comment by WL Mackenzie Redux — June 6, 2008 @ 4:53 pm
“Broadcasting” inside a “courtroom”–not in “Canada” you don’t.
Comment by BillyHW — June 7, 2008 @ 12:38 am
Court official needs an attitude adjustment. May I suggest a Louisville Slugger?
Comment by GM CASSEL AMH1(AW) USN RET — June 7, 2008 @ 7:56 am