Last night, we were watching The Daily Show and all of a sudden a message popped up on the bottom left hand corner of the screen. "Cancun Sexcapade will begin recording now, would you like to switch to that channel?" I looked at John. He laughed, attempting to appear bewildered, "What the hell?" Whatever, John, perv. One hour later, another reminder: Kinky Kong will begin recording now... "JOHN!" I yelled. His face flushed bright red. "What?" he asked sheepishly. All I could do is laugh. Silly boys.Today I interviewed a couple of attorneys who work for the American Immigration Lawyers Assoc. It felt good to be part of a project where people are trying to rectify the injustices imposed under the Patriot Act. But throughout the interview, I was a dripping faucet, this cold is kicking my ass. In between interviews, I checked my blackberry and had received a message from DSG that said: "You should do a story on this" with a link. As my crew adjusted the lighting for our next subject, I tapped back, "In the middle of a shoot, need details." He responded with: "these imams that got kicked off a plane because they were praying.... do it. i can only make fun of it, but you can pitch a real story." I was intrigued. After the interview wrapped, I clicked on the link.
Indeed, this was a disturbing occurrence. I mean take a look at the lead: Six imams were removed from a commercial airline flight in Minnesota for what they said was nothing more than trying to say evening prayers. I couldn't believe this wasn't being covered and was just about to send an email to CNN when I glanced at the dateline. No fucking wonder. It happened on November 6, 2006. I updated DSG who was surprised then amused I almost pitched a six month old story. Yeah, how funny would it have been for me to commit professionally suicide at CNN? Not funny, not at all. I'm gonna need DSG to stick to acting and leave the reporting to me.
