tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55556589436176227652011-04-21T17:52:34.063-07:00Chester Wire BlogChester Wire Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08594906196382483359noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555658943617622765.post-28575147282465956572007-10-19T09:00:00.000-07:002007-10-19T09:03:03.053-07:00Ouch! This hurtsThere’s a reason journalists are referred to as wordsmiths. Our Chester base is witness to numerous battles with language, as trainees, fast trackers and sub-editors employ their own strategies to forge words into news stories. I listen to people desperately reading their embryonic headlines out loud, hoping vocalisation will help (it often does); I watch people trawling endlessly through the Chester Wire Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08594906196382483359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555658943617622765.post-27690798479003434952007-10-17T12:20:00.000-07:002007-10-17T12:25:08.607-07:00Chester day 3: Good night and good luckTrainees and fast trackers alike have been out and about in the Chester area searching for stories to write and pictures to take. Dima went to the zoo. He is still puzzled about people paying 200 pounds to clean up after the elephants in the Zoo’s “I was a keeper for the day” offer. Golnar went to the Nowhere House where John Lennon is said (by some) to have been inspired to write a famous song, Chester Wire Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08594906196382483359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555658943617622765.post-72140238350257659882007-10-16T21:08:00.000-07:002007-10-17T02:13:25.868-07:00Internet, appointments, dinner and onion tearsThis was a busy day. Not only did I have an interview at an awfully early hour and had to arrange meetings for the coming days, but was also assigned to the slot in the afternoon and had to cook the dinner. Interview proved to be the easiest part. Writing a story on the basis of it wasn’t that bad either.It was finding internet coverage in the back garden of ‘The Manor’ that proved a pretty Chester Wire Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08594906196382483359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555658943617622765.post-76243706728558180662007-10-16T14:03:00.000-07:002007-10-17T02:07:45.556-07:00Day two in Chester and the trainees are revoltingDay two in Chester and the trainees are revolting. We appointed a morale officer and he informed me the trainees were unhappy at the lack of Internet access in our otherwise well-appointed hostel. OK, the 3G card we have only works in the lounge and today’s rain seems to have made hooking up to the wireless network in the back garden more difficult, but it made me think about how the Web has Chester Wire Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08594906196382483359noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5555658943617622765.post-61920925129106860422007-10-15T15:08:00.000-07:002007-10-15T15:11:58.101-07:00Like Bambi on iceDay One began with scalding showers (for some of us) and four breakfasts (for one of us). After a slightly chaotic morning news meeting, Rob blagged a lift to Airbus to watch a cake be cut and the rest of us hit the streets of Chester.Within hours, Kuba managed to get himself thrown out of a Bingo hall, Soc did a great interview and promptly deleted the tape, and Mette almost got arrested.MishapsChester Wire Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08594906196382483359noreply@blogger.com0