Today is my first day as an intern for the Associated Press.
While I was sitting in church yesterday, I received a text message from the Kansas City Star stating that "Wichita doctor George Tiller was shot to death this morning."
I couldn't believe my eyes as I read the text. I understand that Dr. Tiller was hated by many anti-abortion activists because his clinic in Wichita provided late-term abortions, but why would someone think it was right to commit one sin -- murder -- to fix another sin -- murder of innocent unborn babies?
I knew that the AP office would be pretty chaotic with this type of news happening. Throughout the day I listened in as editors assigned follow-up story after follow-up story.
It was pretty interesting to be in the office as a fly on the wall to see how the AP wire news stories unfold and how they break news.
While following the news there seemed to be a few side notes that I found interesting...
1. Scott Roeder, the man accused in the shooting death of abortionist George Tiller was from Topeka and graduated from Topeka High School. Here's the Topeka Capitol-Journal story on Roeder with exclusive interviews with his family:http://http://cjonline.com/news/2009-06-01/family_shares_accused_killers_history
2. The clinic will re-open next Monday and "What people need to know is... the women's services that we provided for 30 years are not going to change," said LeRoy Carthart a Nebraska physician who has work side-by-side with Tiller. "The same abortion services will remain available in Wichita."http://www.kansas.com/news/tiller/story/835055.html
3. The Wichita Eagle's coverage was pretty good. They had up-to-the minute updates. One thing that I liked was how they asked for reader feedback in their coverage: http://www.kansas.com/news/tiller/story/835201.html
Monday, June 1, 2009
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