Here is an article on the July 4th incident at Nathan's Hot Dog Eating contest. The contest was interrupted by one if it's former competitive eating champions, Takeru Kobayashi.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/05/takeru-kobayashi-faces-ch_n_635522.html
Kobayashi stormed the stage and NYC police had no problems handcuffing and arresting him promptly.
The journalist, Eva Dou, quotes several cites that were useful to the article, such as "common folk", such as interviewing Kobayashi's competitor, Joey Chestnut, the new winner of the eating contest. The journalist also quotes Kobayashi's lawyer.
One part of the article stuck out to me, though. I'm curious to see what you feel about the journalist citing Kobayashi's hometown paper, Kyodo News (in Japan). It is quoted below:
But a few days ago, he told Japan's Kyodo News: "I really want to compete in the (Coney Island) event."
It was from this source that the journalist pulled a quote from Kobayashi. I wonder if it was in concern for time or if Eva Dou just wasn't able to get to Kobayashi in time for deadline?
That was a fun article. Yes, it involved an arrest with charges, but it's light hearted because it's about the "dark side" of hotdog eating contests, which is hilarious. (Unlike what I posted about a possession, which wasn't light-hearted at all and was just aimed to creep people out.)
ReplyDeleteAs for the quote by the Japanese reporter, I'm leaning toward your lack-of-time answer. The writer of this article obviously did some work by reading other articles on the event, but since he or she didn't do the digging, it's sort of like publishing a news article about another news article, which I hear the Huffington Post is criticized for. Don't know if that's true or not, though...