Interviews and Research
Uncategorized — Posted on July 21, 2008 at 8:17 am
I hesitate to make judgments on the basis of the few projects I’ve done, but I enjoyed interviewing Jim Callen, Jack Wendle and Pat Ungaro yesterday for my Don Hanni post that’s upcoming today. I researched a number of articles (wish Maag was open so I could have done more) and wrote until 3am. I wonder if I could get used to a job in journalism, or is that just overkill?
I finally realized that my post was going to be too long to post both the full text of Bob Fitzer’s “The End of the Hanni Machine” commentary as well as my own post, so about 1:30a I put it up on its own so it would have some time to be out there. Then, this afternoon or tonight, I’ll unleash my own article, which I’m feeling pretty good about, though nervous. After the vitriol that’s been poured out on Bertram de Souza for what was four paragraphs of fairly harmless ribbing, I can only imagine the wrath that will descend on me.
Hopefully I’ve presented things evenly and respectfully. One never knows with the Vindy crowd. My real goal is to avoid a defamation suit from any of the countless Hanni family lawyers.
At any rate, despite the knowledge that it’s computer generated, it’s still cool to see one’s name on Google News.
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Tyler, It’s a long post, but Hanni was a fairly complex local figure, and anything less layered wouldn’t have captured him.
I agree that Betram is taking a little bit of a beating.
If you really want to see some Vindy.com nastiness, check out the “Hanni Legacy” thread under “Talk of the Valley.”
http://forums.vindy.com/read.php?3,276856,page=1
By the third or fourth page of the thread, the Hanni adult children go after EACH OTHER. It’s a train wreck of boorishness. The thread began in April, and there are posts from yesterday and today. It boggles the mind.
omg, I read the hanni legacy thread. That was insane. Yeah, 2600 words is hardly your typical blog post, so I went the extra mile with the excerpted, full-color blurbs to help people get through. I’m anxious to see the response, to put it mildly.