More from last week’s mass. Once people began arriving at the mass, especially miners’ family members, the organizers asked photographers not to photograph or film the families. With so many national media around, no one really stopped filming, so the media was moved. Instead of being in the shade with coolers full of bottled water, they were all moved out into the blaring sun in the weed-filled parking lot.
After the mass, a few locals came out to talk about things (at that point, there was more hope than there probably is today).
One man who braved the cameras started to answer questions and soon they were all yelling, “We can’t hear you!” and “Get closer to the microphone!” Okay, so he started answering his questions like this:
If you’ve never been around the media horde on a big story like this, count yourself lucky. When you have as many as sixteen video tripods around, the circus must be in town.