ZeroCool@feddit.ch to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoDonald Trump Jr asked courtroom sketch artist to ‘make me look sexy’www.the-independent.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1335arrow-down115
arrow-up1320arrow-down1external-linkDonald Trump Jr asked courtroom sketch artist to ‘make me look sexy’www.the-independent.comZeroCool@feddit.ch to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square49fedilink
minus-squareTaigagaai@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·8 months agoBecause it’s usually not allowed to take pictures in court
minus-squareStuka@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down3·8 months agoThat’s not a real reason. Most courts are recorded, have stenographer and apparently sketch artists. There’s absolutely no reason for court sketch artists to exist in modern society. It’s just silly and wreaks of some conservative tradition.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·8 months agoI don’t think providing steady employment to a local artist is the worst thing taxes support.
minus-squareStuka@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down7·8 months agoIf we’re gonna be handing out money for totally worthless tasks, oh boy imma be rich
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·8 months agoBe real, bro, you already do that.
minus-squareparaphrand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·8 months agoThose recordings are not available to the public though, right? Isn’t that the difference? Or am I just mislead here? I see why the tradition of it feels conservative. But I dunno. I think it’s cool. Seems like good culture.
minus-squareRidgeDweller@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·8 months agoBut why? Seems arbitrary and antiquated
minus-squareLufyCZ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·8 months agoThink it’s to protect the identities of people
minus-squareStuka@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·8 months agoIt’s working well, I definitely do not know it’s trump Jr there.
minus-squareLufyCZ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoThat’s not who it’s supposed to be protecting lol
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·8 months agoThen who’s it supposed to protect?
minus-squareLufyCZ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoWitnesses, the jury, people like that
Because it’s usually not allowed to take pictures in court
That’s not a real reason. Most courts are recorded, have stenographer and apparently sketch artists. There’s absolutely no reason for court sketch artists to exist in modern society. It’s just silly and wreaks of some conservative tradition.
I don’t think providing steady employment to a local artist is the worst thing taxes support.
If we’re gonna be handing out money for totally worthless tasks, oh boy imma be rich
Be real, bro, you already do that.
Those recordings are not available to the public though, right? Isn’t that the difference? Or am I just mislead here?
I see why the tradition of it feels conservative. But I dunno. I think it’s cool. Seems like good culture.
But why? Seems arbitrary and antiquated
Think it’s to protect the identities of people
It’s working well, I definitely do not know it’s trump Jr there.
That’s not who it’s supposed to be protecting lol
Then who’s it supposed to protect?
Witnesses, the jury, people like that