New excuse for jury duty. There are regular followers of my blog but even if you are not one of them, just say it and no more jury duty!Just got this text.
"My best friend got dismissed as a juror for warren trial because she said she reads "Chiv's blog everyday."
Yeah, I am braggin a bit. I did not solicit this text.
I built my readership in less than a year, now almost two years, from nothing with a vision of what readers wanted. There was no built in market for this type of news. I did the same when I did local business profiles for the TS.
I maybe a blogger now but I have always developed original news. Even when I was a traditional journalist.
Two other jurors excused from a smaller case for the same reason a while back.
So that only makes a grand total of 3 compared to Channel 3 and TS whose name came up in the Bodhi Tree trial and Warren trial and others. That is where most jurors say they read or saw something about the case.
My blog coming up is an anomaly.
I forgot about the possible fourth.
Here's a post I did yesterday.
Sep 30, 2015
Guilty until proven innocent? Potential juror mentions my post as TS article
This afternoon Ryan Burns, Paul Mann and I were sitting in while Judge Timothy Cissna and attorneys in the Jason Warren case were questioning individual jurors.
Having sat in jury selection for a few trials, when asked about media it is usually TS or Channel 3 that gets mentioned. A couple of instances with LOCO and my blog.
Today, a potential juror mentioned the exact headline of a post I did linked on LOCO but said she read it in the TS or LOCO, could not recall.
Ryan did mention that in his article but it was the exact headline in my post linked on LOCO.
In fairness to that juror, most people will read the same article or an article and remember some content but not the byline.
Ryan did mention that in his article but it was the exact headline in my post linked on LOCO.
In fairness to that juror, most people will read the same article or an article and remember some content but not the byline.
http://johnchiv.blogspot.com/2015/09/jason-warren-has-asked-to-be-excused.html?m=1
I joked with Ryan and Paul that I would be glad to have TS take the blame!
Clearly social media does not affect jury pools!
The theme of this afternoon was guilty until proven innocent mentality of a couple of potential jurors in a row.
Clearly social media does not affect jury pools!
The theme of this afternoon was guilty until proven innocent mentality of a couple of potential jurors in a row.
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