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Here at Slate, Seth Stevenson is the guy we send to big trials. He started out covering

the Microsoft antitrust trial that was nearly 25 years ago.

I covered Michael Jackson's trial and Scooter Libby and then Whitey Bulger and Johar

Sornaya. He got interested in his latest trial, Sarah Palin versus The New York Times,

after he'd been hanging around the Southern District of New York, reporting on a different

prosecution.

I covered the Gillenn Maxwell trial, which is also in this district. I sort of got on

the email list and they sent out notable trials upcoming and I saw this one and I said,

whoa, that's interesting. Then I read a little bit more about it and I said, whoa, the

future of American journalism is possibly at stake here.

And I said, I would like to see that. So that's how I came to be there.

Sarah Palin versus The New York Times is about a journalistic error. The stuff of every

reporter's nightmares. I mean, I think part of the reason why this case has been so

fascinating for people like you and me is that it's about a terrible, horrible, no good,

very bad day that is very familiar to all of us. Everyone has gotten something wrong in

an article and woken up in the middle of the night and been like, did I mess that up?

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