Missing the story entirely

Nassdja and I were covering a story about the increase in voter registration in Syracuse's 4th district.

We stopped and talked to a young man in his car. He didn't have much to say about voter registration. In fact, he was preoccupied with his cat, who stuck in a tree.

I talked to him for awhile and told him I hoped his cat got down. Well, about an hour later, The Post Standard and News Channel 9 reported that a man had been electrocuted when he climbed a ladder trying to rescue his cat. It was the man who we had talked to just an hour earlier.

Other than that, we had some difficulty trying to get people to talk to us about voter registration. We asked a group of young men if they were voting, and one replied "I'd vote for you for President!"