WHO: Eli Liebowitz & OPEN WHAT: Eli hawks the big news; will readily add his own editorial, free of charge WHERE: Downtown Personville WHEN: Saturday, Nov 8th; Morning STATUS: Incomplete, Open
Replete with the standard items of his trade - namely a woolen cap and shoulder-slung satchel - Eli waved a flapping copy of the day's Herald high above his head, the headline printed in bold ink across the front page. The sidewalk traffic milled about him as he projected his voice like a clarion bell, his words head crisply up and down the street over traffic noise.
"Extra extra, read all about it! Navarro found not guilty of wife's murder! Defense pins blame on homeless community!" Even at a high volume, the latter part of his announcement was tinged with open skepticism. as people came up to drop coins into his hand in exchange for copies, he offered extra editorial snippets along with their newspaper copies. "The prosecution didn't even try to prove connections to organized crime. Character witness testimonials all but ignored. It's easy to pin the crime on a faceless, nameless vagrant and be done with it."