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The Bay Citizen: Skits, Tweets and Video Screens
In the absence of video cameras, coverage of the Prop 8 closing arguments included liveblogging, Twitter, and even re-enactments from trial transcripts:
Guerilla street performances of court transcripts were probably the quirkiest reaction to the no-filming verdict—and one of the most effective, said representatives of Courage Campaign, a pro-gay-marriage, grass-roots activist network. . . .
Maggie Gallagher, chair of the National Organization for Marriage, which supports Prop. 8, said, “I do think the re-enactment is a bit odd, but to each his own.”
Gallagher's medium of communication today was primarily Twitter, though she says she would have published a transcript of the hearing via blog if she'd had better Internet access in the courtroom. She says she finds posting about the hearing on the Internet to be, in some ways, more intimate than filming it. Having multiple parties transcribing and responding to different parts of the hearing allows more viewpoints to be expressed, she said.
“What you find notable depends on your view, and our view is not well represented in mainstream media,” she said. “We thought it was important that we be here.”
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