Bouchard-Taylor commission

Wednesday evening, I drove 200km to get to Jonquière, now known as Saguenay, to cover the Bouchard-Taylor commission (not from Quebec? Explanation here).

So for 3 hours, you have a president of commission listening to a bunch of people taking the mic to speak their mind.

What do you do?

First, you go for the obvious. You get the president as he speaks; you take people in the crowd who are not just reading a paper to explain their point.

And after a while, you try to go for the less obvious. You see shadows, and you go really artsy fartsy. You go for the detail. Anything to get something different.

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  • In Belgium, there was a big issue with journalists taking pictures of politicians where you could see their notes. A former prime minister went to see the king during a crisis situation. The journalists took pictures of him in his car. But with modern cameras, they also caught the notes on his knees… This led to a deeper crisis…

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