The Camera‘s Erica Meltzer only started tweeting trial proceedings recently but is already one of my very favorite follows.
Today, she’s livetweeting the murder trial of Kevin McGregor, and one of my favorite topics — online comments — came up.
It’s great stuff, and the full feed is a wonderful example of courts coverage that reminded me of Steve Buttry’s (lengthy) guide to digital-first reporting. Here, too, is another example of live court reporting with Steve’s commentary — and another post with a sample court reporter’s workflow.
Here are a few samples from Erica’s feed today:
Prosecution wants to admit comments Kevin McGregor made @dailycamera website as vYRaL303. Defense objects. They're at the bench now.
— Erica Meltzer (@meltzere) January 31, 2012
Vyral303: 'I bet the guys that got robbed robbed the robbers last week. I mean, come’on. It’s the Hill.'
— Erica Meltzer (@meltzere) January 31, 2012
Eric Zale argues that introducing @dailycamera comment from 2008 is prejudicial, makes it seem like he's been doing robberies for long time.
— Erica Meltzer (@meltzere) January 31, 2012
Defense attorney Eric Zale asks her to read other comments by other users. 'So a frat boy got his computer stolen, so what?'
— Erica Meltzer (@meltzere) January 31, 2012
And ... 'A yes, the perfect yuppie environment they made. Boulder is what they made it. Live with it.'
— Erica Meltzer (@meltzere) January 31, 2012
Zale: 'Is it fair to say they all reference each other?' Lieberman: To an extent, yes.
— Erica Meltzer (@meltzere) January 31, 2012
@daveburdick I think it's fair to say that no truer words have been spoken than 'all sorts of people make these comments.'
— Erica Meltzer (@meltzere) January 31, 2012
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