Libra
The media woman is seriously messing with my invisibility factor here; people are looking at me. I say that I am going to get a "public pass," which causes a stir because why should I get one when she is denied? I understand her frustration, but I am praying the world will right now swallow me whole, because now the nice people with the tan uniforms and guns on their hips are talking to me, and for some reason being on the other media people's radar, and with everyone looking at me, I am freaked out.
Not sure what this crazy neurosis is all about, but it's there nonetheless. I think it's partially that I'm not a "real" reporter and that I have heard from people who are hostile toward me for covering this trial. I guess it's possible I have just blown it out of proportion in my mind, thinking everyone must be hostile.
Don't get me wrong - most of "the media" is very nice and polite to me, but there is always this underlying awareness in me that causes me to not enter to freely into any bantering or casual conversation, because I am aware of the fact that, as a "former sex trade worker covering the serial killer trial," I am a story as well. So, I am always careful what I say because of this.
But back to the matter of public versus media passes - the sheriffs are talking to me about them and the media workroom, which I have never been to, I inform them. So I go in everyday on a public pass.
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Trisha I so know what you
By Hazel8500, July 2, 2007 at 21:00Trisha I so know what you mean about having an invisibility prayer, I have one too.
I liked Paul Sullivan's take on ripping down the fence,I'd like to watch that, think I'd get a kick in being part of that to be honest. I personally think its the best thing any publication has done, selecting you and Pauline to cover this story.
I haven't commented nearly enough on your pieces, but I am reading them and they are educating me something fierce. Educating my spirit especially.
I am so grateful to you for putting yourself through this day after day, and I feel deeply that the good you are doing is twofold scratch that three fold, you're standing up for your friends and witnessing for them, you're acting as a translator between the public and the goings on in New West and helping all of us assimilate this huge and horrific story and thirdly I think there are benefits only you will be able to name because they will be for you alone, a reward for choosing not only to survive, but to thrive in a place that does its darndest to take that drive away.
I'm also very pleased that you don't give a wit about other people's opinions at this point, keep following your instincts they'll lead you to more great things.
Peace.
Hazel.
It doesn't matter if you're
By Kerry McGrath, June 19, 2007 at 00:03It doesn't matter if you're not "a real journalist." Yeah, I went to school to become one, but sometimes the best stories are the ones written by those who never trained for it and never really thought about doing it before. You have just as much of a right to be there as I do, as the Globe and Mail does, as CKNW does. No one else can tell the story from your perspective, and I hope you remember that even if some members of the media start to bother you. I admire the fact that you sit there nearly every day and write from your heart while reporting on the facts at the same time. You give a new perspective to a story that sometimes seems dull and boring when the same evidence is reiterated time and time again. You seem to see it as your calling, and that is such an important thing for we who don't have that perspective to remember.
Take your media pass with pride, and use it because you're giving a voice to the women who can't speak for themselves, for whatever reason.
See you in court :).
This story gave me
By Trina Ricketts, June 14, 2007 at 06:49This story gave me goosebumps, Trisha. You have MORE right to tell this story than anyone else because you are telling it from the perspective of the women we lost. We all want you to be there telling this story. What you are doing is so important and no one could do it better than you and Pauline are doing it right now. You're an excellent, hearfelt writer, and you humanize the East End with your memories and reminders of your past life there. Thank you.
I, for one, think enlisting
By Paul Sullivan, June 13, 2007 at 16:30I, for one, think enlisting you and Pauline to cover the Pickton trial is one of the best things we've done at Orato. As for what side of the journalism fence you're on, I'd like to take down the fence altogether. I don't think anyone needs a badge or credentials to tell a true story that informs, edifies, or enlightens others. Of course, training is mostly a good thing, but a good journalist will tell you training is nothing without irrepressible curiosity about how things work, what's happening and why they happen the way they do. Wherever you're coming from, you deserve an opportunity to tell the story that others need to hear. And you're telling it with passion, grace, insight and careful attention to the facts, virtues that put you in a noble line that goes back to the chronicles of the ancients. Keep on reporting, Trisha!
Paul Sullivan,
Editor-In-Chief