Evan Bright Blogs and Tweets Green Trial

The trial of Steven Green opened at the Federal Courthouse on 5th and Broadway in Paducah on Monday. And there in the media pool, sitting among seasoned reporters from the Associated Press, Reuters, Time, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the French Press Agency and others — was our own young Evan Bright of the Tilghman Bell student newspaper. That's right. The Paducah Tilghman High School senior has an as-long-as-it-takes hall pass to cover the trial. And he's off to an excellent start. Evan has created the first and, so far only, blog dedicated to the trial in which Green is charged with raping and killing a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing her family in March 2006. He'll likely be found guilty — clearly, he did it — but according to Evan's first day's recap, it sounds like the defense is hoping for a less-than-death-penalty sentence for Green. Young Evan is not only blogging about the trial, he's doing live tweets on Twitter, giving followers brief blurbs on who's testifying to what. Twitter is super easy and free. Just sign up at twitter.com, then click Follow under the creepy Steven Green photo on Evan's Twitter page. You don't even have to tweet yourself if all you want to do is follow Evan. (I'm on it, too. Which is how I found out about Evan's blog.) Anyway, I'm telling you, this young man — Evan, not the bad guy — is going to be winning awards. His first two blog posts are extremely good — and how can you not love this kind of initiative at this age? Evan is the son of Paula and Steve Bright and the grandson of Jane and Irv Bright. Bright, indeed. Follow along. It will be great fun to see where all this leads for Evan Bright.

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