Community Voices features opinion pieces from a wide variety of authors and perspectives. ()This is the 14th in from the perspective of a District Court judge. The author is now retired.As a young assistant U.S. attorney in the 1970s, I sometimes wondered if the reporters and I were sitting through the same proceedings. There were reporters who would focus on something they thought would make for good copy but which had little importance to the case I was trying. But in time I came to have a high regard for reporters who took pains to accurately describe proceedings in a fair and balanced...…Community Voices features opinion pieces from a wide variety of authors and perspectives. ()This is the 14th in from the perspective of a District Court judge. The author is now retired.As a young assistant U.S. attorney in the 1970s, I sometimes wondered if the reporters and I were sitting through the same proceedings. There were reporters who would focus on something they thought would make for good copy but which had little importance to the case I was trying. But in time I came to have a high regard for reporters who took pains to accurately describe proceedings in a fair and balanced...WW…