It is hard to know what is most important to say about Christie Blatchford, who mattered so much to people as a friend, colleague, personality, role model and journalist, and who died Wednesday at age 68.
Another influence was the college education, which was transforming journalism from a working-class occupation into a quasi-elite profession, and encouraging reporters to think like sociologists or anthropologists, or at least to call one to learn what the story they had been assigned meant. The old-school values were primarily focused on the reader’s experience of a story. “Remember,” Arthur Brisbane, one of William Randolph Hearst’s prized editors, lectured his reporters, “that a newspaper is mostly read by very busy people, or by very tired people… none of whom are going to hunt up a dictionary to find out what you mean. And never forget that if you don’t hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
Journalists become jaded. It’s an occupational hazard. You cover one trial, one election, one plane crash, you’ve covered them all. The next trial, election, or plane crash, you cover by rote. It did not matter that she had been sitting in courtrooms for four or five decades, that she was as knowledgeable as any court reporter in Canada, that she’d seen generations of defendants, lawyers and judges come and go. Each trial was the only trial. Each encounter with human cruelty or recklessness or evil was something new under the sun. Each got everything she had to give.
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