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.
Merlin
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…