Re: CA--Garrido case (who's being paid by the media?)

M wrote:
On Sep 1, 3:14 pm, "Kris Baker" <parallelcoo...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Took money to talk to the media:

Damon Robinson ($2000 from a UK reporter)
Garrido Sr $2000
Marc Lister sold a business card for $10K

Cheyvonne Molino - refuses payment. I like that lady!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/09/at-weeks-end-the-antioc...

Media outlets paying for information in Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping case
September 1, 2009 | 11:17 am

At week's end, the Antioch street where Jaycee Lee Dugard lived after she
was allegedly kidnapped as a child 18 years ago by Phillip and Nancy Garrido
was swarming with media. Satellite trucks parked in driveways, and cameramen
and photographers tromped on lawns and knocked on doors up and down Walnut
Avenue.

Neighbor Damon Robinson was in his backyard, talking with reporters across a
chain-link fence, while another group lined up in the side yard, behind a
clothes line, waiting to interview him.

Robinson eventually spoke with reporters from CNN, the Associated Press and
The Times about the years he'd lived next door to the Garridos and about the
time that his former girlfriend, Erika Pratt, had called 911 to tell
authorities about her suspicions that something was seriously amiss in the
gray cinder-block house.

Suddenly, a British reporter pushed to the front. He told Robinson that he
worked for a media outlet in London and his deadline was fast approaching.
He offered to write a check for $2,000 on the spot if Robinson would stop
talking to other reporters and give him "an exclusive." Robinson complied.

In the days since, locals who knew the Garridos said they have repeatedly
been approached by reporters -- American and foreign, print and
television -- who have offered thousands of dollars for information and
photographs of the Garridos, Dugard, now 29, and the two daughters she bore
Phillip Garrido, ages 15 and 11.

The money can be tempting for some who live in an area pummeled by the
foreclosure crisis and the sagging economy.

Manuel Garrido, who lives in nearby Brentwood in Northern California, at
first spoke freely with reporters about his son's past. But now he says he
wants to be paid. "No more free information," said Garrido, 88. "Other
people are getting paid."

The elder Garrido said he had received $2,000 from one news outlet for an
exclusive interview. "From now on, it's going to be more than $2,000," he
said. "You're making big stories, and you are getting paid for it. Here I am
suffering, so I should get some money out of it."

He said reporters have been hounding him ever since the story broke last
Thursday about his son allegedly kidnapping Dugard from her South Lake Tahoe
neighborhood when she was 11 years old and holding her for 18 years. Phillip
Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy, 54, were arrested and charged with 29
criminal counts in the case.

Concord resident Marc Lister, who knew Phillip Garrido and had some of his
promotional business materials, said he sold one of Garrido's own business
cards, featuring a photo of Dugard, to a media outlet for $10,000.

Lister said he does not consider the money a payout. He said his mother, a
retired teacher who died in 2000, housed battered women for years at her
Walnut Creek home, and he plans to use the money to help the cause.

Lister, a retired insurance company worker who described himself as a
"devout Christian," said he does not feel guilty about charging the news
media for information, because it would benefit the less fortunate.

"I've got morals," he said. "This would make my mom proud."

Cheyvonne Molino, 35, who runs an auto wrecking yard with her husband, said
Phillip Garrido printed their business cards and often stopped by with his
daughters. After his arrest, Molino said reporters hacked into her Facebook
page and stole photos she had posted of Garrido's daughters, who had
attended a party for her daughter's 16th birthday on Aug. 15.

Now reporters are tying up her phone lines and filing in to her office to
look for more photos.

On Monday afternoon, a television crew stopped by her office with an offer
to pay for information. Despite rumors to the contrary, she declined.

"This is people's lives," Molino said. "As much as I need to pay my bills, I
can't be greedy. I'm a good Christian woman. You're not supposed to sell
this."

--
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of
offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with
machetes.
-- Dave Barry

I can see neighbors and acquaintences chasing a buck for this. Makes
sense. I mean, they have to deal with herds of reporters camping out
in their neighborhood.

But Garrido's father? A bit much, IMO.

Jaycee's family doesn't seem to be chasing dollars - and people would
fel good about giving them money.

Mick

They're going to hold out for the really big bucks. As well they should.

Charlie
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