Linked here. Sorry for the paywall. Can’t violate their copyright on my site. Go find the screenshots on Facebook.
One thing that caught my eye was the citing of CAPTUR’s (AAERT’s) 2025 Court Reporting Industry Trends Report. I actually don’t know that I covered the STAR and AAERT merger into CAPTUR, the Council for Advancement of Professionals, Technology, and Unbiased Reporting. I do want to do a deep dive on that report and see what I agree with and what I don’t. But today is not that day. Though you do have to wonder how the National Court Reporters Association, the far more resourced of the two organizations, let AAERT control the information and narrative on the statistics being released on our field.
This is not the writer’s fault, but honestly I didn’t feel like I learned anything. I feel like this was an advertisement to get into court reporting. And if you follow my work you know that that benefits the larger corporations a hell of a lot more than it does the working reporters and that every major player in the game has a financial interest in ignoring the autistic guy that’s been writing about this stuff for the last ten years so guess that’s just how the cookie crumbles.
As some will recall I have a long history of reaching out to journalists. Usually politely when I’m not engaging in some kind of writing experiment or psychotic break. I rarely hear back and false information is never corrected, so for this author I decided to send a literary work of art instead.
P.S.
Welcome to the world of disinformation.
1. The BLS actually says there’s zero job growth.
2. The future is not brighter for realtime as they will have increased competition and pressure to freeze or reduce fees in the coming years absent a good media campaign or something to keep the demand coming.
3. A formal court reporting program often takes students more than two years to complete — though that in and of itself may be the profit motive at work in the schools.
