The Truth Puts Its Boots On
Nothing takes away from the gravity of a triple murder like watching its aftermath transpire on CNN.
Watching Vernon Keenan, chairman of the GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigation), causes great fear if one imagines him as the chairman of the Federal B.I.
PRESS: Are you confident that he's out of the area?
GBI: No, I'm not confident... We don't know where he's at.
He says photo-graphs like it's two words, heavy on the O's. Sure, he looks like a gumshoe, with the checkered suit and the loosened tie, and the wide-brimmed, half-cocked hat. But this is reality, and this gumshoe appears more clueless than most.
The news has just broken that the green Honda Accord that Nichols was believed to be in for the past fifteen hours since "carjacking" (never have I heard it so much) it from an Atlanta newspaper reporter was, in fact, in a parking garage.
It is the same garage from which it was carjacked. It never left the building.
The broadcast cuts to a picture of the reporter who got jacked and goes to audio voiceover. In a still picture, the reporter grimly, proudly displays the facial wounds from his pistol whipping.
For the past fifteen hours, Law Enforcement (throughout this broadcast it's been verily personified) has spearheaded the manhunt via the resources of the media, notifying all Atlantans to keep their eyes peeled for Nichols... in a green Honda Accord.
Introducing a segment, the anchor--his first name is Miles--introduces the fact that the car has been found as "the good news" before turning and soliciting an expert with hypothyroid eyes who is wearing an orange button down shirt.
CNN anchor [to expert]: "Give us Manhunt 101."
The CNN anchor is a pandering, blathering fool, and even at 2:30 AM, it's an embarrassment to CNN to put him in front of the camera in any capacity.
"He's going to go where he can get what he needs. He needs to get out of there."
"Henry Schuster," says the anchor, "who has covered many a manhunt for us, back with us tonight. Stay close, Henry."
The anchor keeps mentioning Nichols' appearance in court the day before with two home-made knives shoved into his boots, and seems to take great pleasure in using what he believes is jailhouse slang, and defining it for the general public; he doesn't seem to have much to add.
CNN Anchor [to expert]: "So he came to the jailhouse with these homemade knives, these shivs... Correct?"
He wears his hair combed straight back, revealing a receding hairline he considers dignified, and his shirt and tie are solid blues of slightly different hues.
Their legal expert wears his hair combed forward.
The anchor ignores the expert's gentle attempts to correct "shiv" with "shank".
After repeatedly emphasizing with contempt that "one, single, [cough] female deppity" was all that the Department of Corrections assigned to Nichols--"even after this shiv incident"--the anchor's own words provoke him to muse:
"That borders on outrage right there." All the while thinking this is a special night for my career.
During the commercial break he rolls up his shirtsleeves.
Nancy Grace, a lady with large blond hair whose program, recorded earlier, reappears now, calls him the defen-DANT.
In six consecutive hours of round-the-clock coverage, Brian Nichols' is the only black face shown anywhere on the broadcast.
Watching Vernon Keenan, chairman of the GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigation), causes great fear if one imagines him as the chairman of the Federal B.I.
PRESS: Are you confident that he's out of the area?
GBI: No, I'm not confident... We don't know where he's at.
He says photo-graphs like it's two words, heavy on the O's. Sure, he looks like a gumshoe, with the checkered suit and the loosened tie, and the wide-brimmed, half-cocked hat. But this is reality, and this gumshoe appears more clueless than most.
The news has just broken that the green Honda Accord that Nichols was believed to be in for the past fifteen hours since "carjacking" (never have I heard it so much) it from an Atlanta newspaper reporter was, in fact, in a parking garage.
It is the same garage from which it was carjacked. It never left the building.
The broadcast cuts to a picture of the reporter who got jacked and goes to audio voiceover. In a still picture, the reporter grimly, proudly displays the facial wounds from his pistol whipping.
For the past fifteen hours, Law Enforcement (throughout this broadcast it's been verily personified) has spearheaded the manhunt via the resources of the media, notifying all Atlantans to keep their eyes peeled for Nichols... in a green Honda Accord.
Introducing a segment, the anchor--his first name is Miles--introduces the fact that the car has been found as "the good news" before turning and soliciting an expert with hypothyroid eyes who is wearing an orange button down shirt.
CNN anchor [to expert]: "Give us Manhunt 101."
The CNN anchor is a pandering, blathering fool, and even at 2:30 AM, it's an embarrassment to CNN to put him in front of the camera in any capacity.
"He's going to go where he can get what he needs. He needs to get out of there."
"Henry Schuster," says the anchor, "who has covered many a manhunt for us, back with us tonight. Stay close, Henry."
The anchor keeps mentioning Nichols' appearance in court the day before with two home-made knives shoved into his boots, and seems to take great pleasure in using what he believes is jailhouse slang, and defining it for the general public; he doesn't seem to have much to add.
CNN Anchor [to expert]: "So he came to the jailhouse with these homemade knives, these shivs... Correct?"
He wears his hair combed straight back, revealing a receding hairline he considers dignified, and his shirt and tie are solid blues of slightly different hues.
Their legal expert wears his hair combed forward.
The anchor ignores the expert's gentle attempts to correct "shiv" with "shank".
After repeatedly emphasizing with contempt that "one, single, [cough] female deppity" was all that the Department of Corrections assigned to Nichols--"even after this shiv incident"--the anchor's own words provoke him to muse:
"That borders on outrage right there." All the while thinking this is a special night for my career.
During the commercial break he rolls up his shirtsleeves.
Nancy Grace, a lady with large blond hair whose program, recorded earlier, reappears now, calls him the defen-DANT.
In six consecutive hours of round-the-clock coverage, Brian Nichols' is the only black face shown anywhere on the broadcast.
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