NVN Wednesday: HOW JOURNALISTS KEEP SCORE
by David Feela
For Gail Binkly & the 4CornersFreePress 9/2003 - 2/2024
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Sitting in the back row at another public meeting listening to what’s spoken hearing what’s not said measuring the distance between these goals where truth gets kicked around to make a few cheap points Every meeting is a scrimmage moving a pencil or pen pushing a digital button collecting every word rewinding & fast-forwarding late into the night until the players are realigned in an orderly fashion As paragraphs emerge on a plain white field the story’s noise gets hushed an extended replay an understanding as if the game depended on more than who simply won or lost
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David Feela writes monthly columns for The Four Corners Free Press and The Durango Telegraph. Unsolicited Press carries his latest chapbook Little Acres. His out-of-print collection of essays How Delicate These Arches—a finalist for the Colorado Book Award—is available once more, but this time as an ebook.