Post by Heather Glass - VerMillion on Jan 7, 2012 17:07:34 GMT -5
The last several hours have been busy ones for Heather. Once she and her friends where finished talking to the police and quickly reassuring each other that they were all perfectly fine and telling each other how awesome they were under pressure, she'd practically dived into looking into the Ventriloquist's escape. Some parts of it were pretty easy to find out - that he'd escaped from the F.B.I.'s prison, that they were looking for him. That's what all the other news sources are reporting though, and she needs a bit more than a few bare facts if she's going to ramble on it for an hour.
Especially since she's not planning on sharing her personal experience at the park with her audience - it's best to keep the public life away from the private life. Sure she'll mention him having been seen at the park, but they don't need to know that she was one of the people doing the seeing. It was scary and she doesn't really want to talk about that much, though a part of her is glad that she was there for the simple fact that she could recognize the man on sight and thus help keep her friends safe.
Therefore, she kept her personal memory of what happened there on the sidelines while she called up a few of her contacts and asked them what they know about the Ventriloquist's escape. A part of the reason why she's gaining rapidly in popularity is her own particular 'take' on the news stories, and that requires her to know more and different things than your average news report would be able to tell you. She doesn't really investigate these things herself per say, but she knows several people who do and can often get them to give her the details she needs in situations like this where facts are too sparse.
But now that the seconds are ticking down for her turn on the air, she thinks she's satisfied with what she's been able to find in spite of the slightly rushed nature of it. So long as she gets a few interesting callers she should be able to fill her hour slot with it.
"Hellooo Gotham! It's nine o'clock and you're listening to WGGZ, which means that it's time for News and Views. I'm VerMillion, and thank you for tuning in.
"There were a lot of good headlines today, but my story of the day is the escape of the Ventriloquist from the F.B.I.'s holding facility overnight. Apparently someone broke into their facility and released him along with one of the other prisoners. The F.B.I. are identifying the man who did this as Nightwing, who recently made headlines by kidnapping Pamela Isley from a charity auction being held at the natural history museum. However, the interesting part of that story is that the woman who he released was, believe it or not, Pamela Isley. The F.B.I. are saying that she killed several of their agents and is highly dangerous. Do I sense that we have a con artist couple caught in the act?" she asks speculatively, her voice suggesting that it's cute/romantic if that's true. And that's the only explanation that makes any sense to her given that this hardly known masked man first very publicly kidnapped a woman who turned out to be a criminal and then went through the trouble and danger of breaking her out of prison when the F.B.I. found her out. "Apparently there was some sort of altercation last night at Miss Isley's estate in north Gotham shortly after they left the prison, but both of them escaped and haven't been seen since.
"The Ventriloquist, on the other hand, was spotted in Robinson Park this afternoon but managed to give the police the slip after a brief chase. So all three of these people are now on the run and of course the F.B.I. are asking anyone with any information to please contact them. But if you merely want to give your View on this News, the number to dial is 958-867-5309."
"My View is that, as good as the F.B.I. have been at cleaning up the regular street crime, they're obviously having trouble hanging onto some of Gotham's more dangerous criminals. But that's not too surprising since we've always had that problem in Gotham. To their credit, they are managing to hang onto more of them for longer than the local authorities, as well as keeping the others so pinned down that they can't do much, but even so it's looking like their whole operation here will take longer than they hoped," she comments, not bothering to add that they've already been here a lot longer than anyone hoped and there doesn't appear to be any end in sight.
It's then that she notices that the light indicating that she has a caller is already flashing so she adds, "But let's move on to our first caller. Who are you and was is your View?"
(OOC: Once again, this thread is open but only for one other person at a time, so if she's already talking to someone please wait until she's finished with them if you want to call into the show. Also, Ivy's called dibs on being the first caller, but that should go very quickly since I play her.)
Especially since she's not planning on sharing her personal experience at the park with her audience - it's best to keep the public life away from the private life. Sure she'll mention him having been seen at the park, but they don't need to know that she was one of the people doing the seeing. It was scary and she doesn't really want to talk about that much, though a part of her is glad that she was there for the simple fact that she could recognize the man on sight and thus help keep her friends safe.
Therefore, she kept her personal memory of what happened there on the sidelines while she called up a few of her contacts and asked them what they know about the Ventriloquist's escape. A part of the reason why she's gaining rapidly in popularity is her own particular 'take' on the news stories, and that requires her to know more and different things than your average news report would be able to tell you. She doesn't really investigate these things herself per say, but she knows several people who do and can often get them to give her the details she needs in situations like this where facts are too sparse.
But now that the seconds are ticking down for her turn on the air, she thinks she's satisfied with what she's been able to find in spite of the slightly rushed nature of it. So long as she gets a few interesting callers she should be able to fill her hour slot with it.
"Hellooo Gotham! It's nine o'clock and you're listening to WGGZ, which means that it's time for News and Views. I'm VerMillion, and thank you for tuning in.
"There were a lot of good headlines today, but my story of the day is the escape of the Ventriloquist from the F.B.I.'s holding facility overnight. Apparently someone broke into their facility and released him along with one of the other prisoners. The F.B.I. are identifying the man who did this as Nightwing, who recently made headlines by kidnapping Pamela Isley from a charity auction being held at the natural history museum. However, the interesting part of that story is that the woman who he released was, believe it or not, Pamela Isley. The F.B.I. are saying that she killed several of their agents and is highly dangerous. Do I sense that we have a con artist couple caught in the act?" she asks speculatively, her voice suggesting that it's cute/romantic if that's true. And that's the only explanation that makes any sense to her given that this hardly known masked man first very publicly kidnapped a woman who turned out to be a criminal and then went through the trouble and danger of breaking her out of prison when the F.B.I. found her out. "Apparently there was some sort of altercation last night at Miss Isley's estate in north Gotham shortly after they left the prison, but both of them escaped and haven't been seen since.
"The Ventriloquist, on the other hand, was spotted in Robinson Park this afternoon but managed to give the police the slip after a brief chase. So all three of these people are now on the run and of course the F.B.I. are asking anyone with any information to please contact them. But if you merely want to give your View on this News, the number to dial is 958-867-5309."
"My View is that, as good as the F.B.I. have been at cleaning up the regular street crime, they're obviously having trouble hanging onto some of Gotham's more dangerous criminals. But that's not too surprising since we've always had that problem in Gotham. To their credit, they are managing to hang onto more of them for longer than the local authorities, as well as keeping the others so pinned down that they can't do much, but even so it's looking like their whole operation here will take longer than they hoped," she comments, not bothering to add that they've already been here a lot longer than anyone hoped and there doesn't appear to be any end in sight.
It's then that she notices that the light indicating that she has a caller is already flashing so she adds, "But let's move on to our first caller. Who are you and was is your View?"
(OOC: Once again, this thread is open but only for one other person at a time, so if she's already talking to someone please wait until she's finished with them if you want to call into the show. Also, Ivy's called dibs on being the first caller, but that should go very quickly since I play her.)