A photo opportunity practically fell into my lap this week. My broadcast journalism teacher invited the class to tag along to Jefferson City for a routine taping of the public television program she anchors, “Jeff City Journal”. When I heard we would also be meeting her mentor, Phil Brooks, instantly thought “photo subject!”
"This may be the beginning of the Republican fracture" Phill Brooks discusses one of the top stories of the day: heated debate in the Senate over business tax exemptions. The acting Dean of the Statehouse Press Corps, Brooks has covered the legislature for nearly 40 years.
"Phooey to Fair" is one of the most important phrases Brooks stresses to journalism students, though he uses a different word than Phooey. Brooks says not every balanced story has to be "fair" to the subject. "Do you think those covering the Holocaust would stress including Hitler's side of the story?"
Brooks with Missy Shelton (L). Shelton was a student of Brooks when she attended the School of Journalism at MU. She is now the news director for KSMU, the NPR affiliate in Springfield.
I can't take credit for this one, obviously. Missy took the picture.
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