The first hard translation
Ran across the L.A. Times photos from '99's Jewish Community Center shootings. I hadn't thought about the story in a long time, but it was the first real, hard, in-progress narrative demand that initial summer on the Web. Initially meeting the question, how did you take a horrible story, put it into a box and template and still have it mean something to the crowd? It was different, of course, from reporting the story or living in the story. The issue came in where you stood on meaning — and where, as news cycles continued, you would continue to stand.
