Click here to see Rachel Maddow of MSNBC shout out to court reporters!
This video will lighten your day and you can see the world through the eyes of a court reporter’s imagination.
This is a poem that all reporters can relate to and will perhaps give you insight to our tasks at hand on a daily basis:
Court reporters hear such woe; How they stand it, I don’t know. Tales of gore and incest too; Rape and murder – nothing new. Drinking, drugs, and barroom brawls; Contracts, leases, “slip-and-falls.” Things that cause my hair to rise, to them the story’s no surprise. Auto smashups, petty theft; Child abuse, a spouse who left. Workers’ comp. and unpaid bills; All about a client’s ills. To me it seems an awful chore; To them, they’ve heard it all before. And so they sit and take it down. They don’t complain and seldom frown. And though the witness rants and raves, they merely nod and make no waves. They’re patient, calm, and no one’s fool. How CAN they stay so doggone cool? The answer’s clear; it takes no sage – They simply charge us by the page. “Edward Siegel – Jacksonville”
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