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meeting both concisely and comprehensively.
By contrast, the TV folks would come in, get some footage and sound bites and be out of there in a half hour in time to get something on the six o’clock news. Find me anybody who can be well informed about public matters by watching nightly sound bites of issues and I will go find some ocean front land in Arizona.
There was a time when folks only found out about events, such as the Declaration of Independence, weeks or months after it occurred. Now folks flip the channels and can hear news of the same story practically around the clock.
Just be careful not to violate the new laws, whatever they are.
John Goolrick, a former political reporter, is now an aide to 1st District Rep. Jo Ann Davis. Opinions expressed are his own.
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