I think maybe the reporter was also under the influence of alcohol. Kind of like Mo Dowd. Probably can’t write at all unless he drinks to “inspire” himself.
Or herself, since I looked her up and find that she is female.
Here’s her capsule bio, posted for some reason on an Icelandic website called Global Meltdown:
“Arelis Rocio Hernandez, 21, is a Latina multimedia journalism student at the University of Maryland with a minor in U.S. Latina/o studies. She was born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, where she developed an acute sense of awareness and an obsessive need to know what was going on in the world. Now a journalism student, Arelis has interned for the Baltimore Sun, the Orlando Sentinel, washingtonpost.com, and the Wilmington Star-News in North Carolina. She also worked for the online news bureau of Capital News Service at the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism. This summer, she will be reporting for the Associated Press in their Houston Bureau. Arelis hopes to be on the cutting edge of innovation, mastering digital media and serving underrepresented groups through journalism.”
Eeeek. It boggles the mind that these people even exist.
I wonder what the payoff for “underrepresented groups” is in reporting that they’re lying in parking lots too drunk to get out of the way of a car.