Court Cases in Newspapers

Shanley

Quick question? Anybody know how people in the media get such accurate accounts of court cases? Theres no way they would be handling all that information in their mind? Are they allowed voice recorders?

coylemj

You're not allowed to record proceeding in a court, audio or video. I suspect that court reporters still do shorthand.

Shanley

Lot to take in :P

jake66

I worked in the Dublin criminal courts for a number of years, you would often see the journalists with recorders in their bags, especially especially coming to the end of the high profile cases when the papers would run the human interest stories.
Most court reporters still use short hand though....

They also get it wrong. A LOT

conorh91

You would have to be very naive to believe that all court reporters abstain from recording dialogue. Modern technology and the widespread use of IT devices in courts mean that the recording of proceedings could almost never be intercepted.

To believe that all these reporters instead prefer to hire stenographers or become stenographers themselves at great expense of time and money, is a feat of magnificent innocence.

Tom Young

Exercising your Arts 34 & 40.6.1.i rights hardly comes within the ambit of being unreasonable when our courts are held in public (with very few exceptions).

hullaballoo

What really amazes me is reporters' almost universal capacity to hear something completely different to what anyone else in the court room hears. I mean the depth of misunderstanding is something to behold.

Little CuChulainn

hullaballoo wrote: »

What really amazes me is reporters' almost universal capacity to hear something completely different to what anyone else in the court room hears. I mean the depth of misunderstanding is something to behold.

Are you sure you aren't confusing misunderstanding with misrepresenting?

MarkAnthony

Shanley wrote: »

Lot to take in :P

There's actually very little to take in. The spirit of what's going on is very easy to capture. Even for a law student on internship sent up there to take notes.

L1011

Initially minidisc recorders, then Zoom/Marantz handhelds and now phones are what reporters actually do use, constantly, in court. I'd imagine that no new reporter on the scene since the early 2000s has learnt shorthand.

amen

To believe that all these reporters instead prefer to hire stenographers or become stenographers themselves at great expense of time and money, is a feat of magnificent innocence.

anyone can learn shorthand. Journalists have learn it for years.

vector

It is great that journalists do attend the District Court in particular, there are so many gems of cases, and there is less coverage of them now... as papers cut back...