Greeley Stampede
covering the over covered
It's an ancient newspaper quagmire: An event comes to town once a year, and everyone expects the paper to cover it, but how do you give people something they'd want to read. Doyle Murphy covered the Greeley Stampede last year in an interesting way, looking for documentable moments in the lives of people around the Stampede. Meghan Murphy's on it this year. Here she is with the first two installments: Watching over the Watermelon Feed and Leading the way to the Stampede: Norma Trujillo fumbles through her purse, locating her wallet and carefully feeling for $2 in bus fare. She takes a deep breath, sighs and clutches her bag.
"I saw her on the bus yesterday, she was really nervous," her friend, Vicki Baker, says.
Norma, 27, hasn't been to the Greeley Independence Stampede in eight years. Since her grandmother passed away in 2000, the blind woman hasn't had a trusted friend to take her. Then she met Vicki.
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ben on 06/27/07 at
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Re: Greeley Stampede
I really like these stories, especially about the blind woman heading out for the carnival. It's become a strange phenomena for most reporters to have the freedom to wander and see what they find. Too often with these big, annual events editors plan the living shit out of everything so they can just slap together the blocks when they do the daily schedules. You end up with the story on number of food vendors, the number of police complaints, the shows. Pretty soon, they've scheduled everything so tight there's no room for the story you stumble upon.
Meghan's doing a great job showing why we should get more time to wander.
And Meghan, see if you can get into the Wranglers private bar and write that story. Bastards never let me in last year. I'm almost bitter enough to fly back to Greeley and let their goats loose.
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at June 27,2007 20:40
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