Skip to comments.
Seeing the humanity in the man-When lights went out during Tookie interview,reporter was illuminated
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 12/16/5
| Leslie Fulbright
Posted on 12/18/2005 8:24:14 AM PST by SmithL
One of the most frightening places I've been in the middle of a power outage is a tiny room inside the walls of San Quentin State Prison.
I was padlocked inside the small room with a man I had never met before, a man who was to be executed within days for the brutal murders of four people.
I was there to interview Stanley Tookie Williams. He shook my hand, introduced himself and we began to talk. An hour later, a heavy storm felled a power line and the lights in the visiting area suddenly went off.
My first reaction was to look at the door with its small rectangular hole, through which Williams an hour earlier had shoved his muscular arms to be cuffed while I walked into the room. After I entered and the door was securely locked, Williams shoved his arms back through the rectangular hole so the cuffs could be removed.
I glanced at that door. I looked for a prison guard who could bust open the door and pull me out should anything go wrong. Williams sensed my apprehension.
"Don't panic," he told me. "I'm here, I can protect you. I've got your back."
He calmed me down.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: awwwwww; megabarfalert; stanleywilliams; tookie; waxingrhapsodic
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-29 last
To: SmithL
This article is supposed to be about Tookie. He gets mentioned in two sentences. This is a standard aren't-I-great-to-get-this-celebrity-interview article. This self-centered broad is trying to work her way up, or down if you prefer, to the position of Geraldo Rivera.
And, she has a long, long way to go. Did I miss anything.
Congressman Billybob
Latest column: "My Friend, Gene McCarthy, 1916-2005"
21
posted on
12/18/2005 9:19:59 AM PST
by
Congressman Billybob
(Do you think Fitzpatrick resembled Captain Queeg, coming apart on the witness stand?)
To: infidel29; SmithL
Got your back.... Didn't he shoot a couple of people in the back?
22
posted on
12/18/2005 9:24:13 AM PST
by
FreeAtlanta
(never surrender, this is for the kids)
To: SmithL
This is an amazingly revealing article. This "reporter" is horribly conceited and narcissistic. She uses the word "I" 50 times in this article. She also uses the words "my" and "me" ten times each. She writes in the article that she wants to "write a story about William's life using his voice" yet quotes Williams only twice. Williams, just like the reporter, uses the word "I" five times in those two sentences she quotes. Perhaps, in a way, she did tell his story. Through her repetitive use of the words I, me and my, she capsulizes his life; one of selfishness and narcissism.
But she also capsulizes her life, also one of narcissism, selfishness and arrogance. She castigates other reporters for not having the courage to interview Williams as she would have readers infer, but after saying Williams' "voice was essential", she only quotes him twice. What else did the two of them discuss for more than an hour, yet all we reader's get is a "look at how great I am" piece.
To: miele man
all we reader's get is a "look at how great I am" piece
I think Tookie got a piece.
.
24
posted on
12/18/2005 10:31:32 AM PST
by
mugs99
(Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
To: SmithL
Go read the article. Leslie spends more words trying to express her "feelings" than she does writing about Tookie.
SmithL, ya got it right when you wrote, "cup-o-fluff reporterette."
25
posted on
12/18/2005 10:44:32 AM PST
by
upchuck
(Article posts of just one or two sentences do not preserve the quality of FR. Lazy FReepers be gone!)
To: dsc
"Anyone know the recidivism rate amongst children's books authors?"
Fairly high, really. I mean, J. K. Rowling has has committed prose at least six times. And my God, look at Lemmony Snickit! Talk about repeat offenders!
26
posted on
12/18/2005 11:23:25 AM PST
by
Fatuncle
(Iffen I wuzn't iggnert, I woodn't need to be eddiecated.)
To: SmithL
***I was padlocked inside the small room with a man I had never met before, a man who was to be executed within days for the brutal murders of four people. ***
Which is reason alone for PUBLIC HANGINGS!
27
posted on
12/18/2005 11:39:52 AM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(When someone burns a cross on your lawn, the best firehose is an AK-47.)
To: SmithL
I've got your back."
---And if he had a shotgun, that is exactly where he would have shot her ............
28
posted on
12/19/2005 1:23:17 AM PST
by
WasDougsLamb
(I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man)
To: jec41
"I decided I wanted to be a reporter in 1992," But I became a idiot instead!!!!
There's a difference?
29
posted on
12/19/2005 1:36:04 AM PST
by
rmh47
(Go Kats! - Got Seven? [NRA Life Member])
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-29 last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson