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Wednesday March 11, 2009
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Permit No. 14
Newscaster Publishing
Mike Moore - Photojournalist
Governor
Appoints
Replacements
for BOCC and
School Board,
Details on pg.3
Squawk Box
With Mike Moore
I'm back.
I've been away in Texas
helping after Hurricane Ike
slammed that coastline last Sep-
tember. I case you didn't know, I
am a reservist for FEMA and
when I'm gone from home, it is
almost always because I am
photo taking for FEMA somewhere after a
disaster. I've been catching up on stuff in-
cluding six months of mail. In the piles of mail
that were waiting for me I came across a letter
from a reader who seemed pretty angry. I
thought to myself, "self, time to clear the desk
Strawberries Forever - Four year old Selena Quattromani of Citrus Springs has her hands full at the Floral City Strawberry Festival held last Saturday
Strawberries
and air and move forward".
and Sunday as Star and Jorge, mom and dad Quattromani, try hard to actually get a flat of ripe berries into the car and home to enjoy; the solution... one
The letter was chiding me about my
flat for Selena, one flat for home! Newscaster Photo by Mike Moore
journalistic skills and content of a previous
Man
Student Pilot Makes Hard
Squawkbox. I'd like to address some of the
points brought up in that letter here in public.
First, the reader is correct, I am not a formally
Arrested For
Landing At Crystal River Airport
trained journalist. The reader is also correct
that I was not using 'journalism' as a style
when writing that piece (or for that matter...
Attack on
From the Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
any) for the Squawkbox. If I was writing in a
more formal style for this column, I would start
Citrus County Sheriff dispatch began get-
out with some type of main theme to explore
“Cabby”
ting calls around 12:10 p.m. March 5 about a
and then use solid research and add citations
plane having trouble with a landing at the
to support the main argument. I would try to
Crystal River Airport. The Crystal Aero Group
A 20-year-old Beverly
stay very objective, perhaps writing with
put the crash itself at 12:23 p.m.
Hills man, Jesus Jose Galarza,
points for both sides of the discussion or, as
The female pilot, Nirali Bhati, 18, of India
31 N. Adams St., Beverly Hills,
most journalistic stories do, adopt an inverted
is an aviation student with the Orlando Flight
is incarcerated at the Citrus
pyramid, summary lead style of story with a
Training school in Kissimmee. She left Or-
County Detention Facility on
lead-in hook, a first paragraph W,W,W,W,&
lando the morning of March 5 on a training
numerous felony charges re-
H, then continuing with supporting fluff to
Newscaster Photo by Mike Moore
flight, which took her first to Ocala. She did a
lated to a robbery that took
keep the reader tuned in until about 2/3
ground, swinging the plane around and caus-
touch-and-go there with no difficulties in her
place in Beverly Hills on Sun-
through the piece. I'm certain there are other
ing the tip of the left wing to strike the tarmac.
Cessna 152 single-engine plane. Her next stop
Jesus Galarza
day night.
more sophisticated expository styles that I,
The plane came to rest with its nose down.
was Crystal River where she was to perform
According to the arrest re-
as a non-jounalism trained kind of guy, don't
Luckily, no fire ensued, and there was only
another touch-and-go. Wind may have been
port, deputies were dispatched to Beverly
even know about... like Advocacy, Investiga-
a slight fuel leak which was quickly
a factor, but she came down hard, losing con-
Hills, where an injured taxi cab driver, 49-year-
tive, AP Style, or Human Interest... oh, sorry...
contained.The young pilot blacked out dur-
trol of the plane. It slid off the tarmac into a
old Jack Frost of Lecanto, told deputies that
not supposed to know that stuff... read on!
ing the incident itself, but suffered no inju-
grassy area, which caused the nose wheel to
Continued on page 4 - Squawk Box
Continued on page 8 - Cab Driver Attack
collapse. The propeller then struck the
Continued on page 11- Hard Landing