International Alliance of Professional Reporters and Transcribers....HA!

As a stenographic reporter, I would be more than happy to be part of an "alliance" that has the best interests of the profession at heart.  Look at this picture:

This is comical.  They show a lady with a few years under her belt (no disrespect).  Her hands are on the QWERTY keyboard.  The caption says DIGITAL REPORTING.  Then they have a steno machine from the 1970s in the background.  This picture is trying to convey a woman with experience using a laptop.  The picture should stop there, but it goes further to include a stenographic machine to pretend they are getting every word.  The digital reporting community claims to be the latest in court reporting technology and that steno is archaic.  Then why on earth would you ride on the coattails of the stenographic community and throw in a machine from the '70s?  To pretend she is getting every word.  This is the kind of propaganda that upsets me when it comes to digital reporting.  If digital reporting is so fabulous, it should be standing on its own two feet and not pretending to be something it is not.

This "alliance" talks about bringing together all methods of court reporting under one roof, so to speak.  The above picture is a snapshot of a slideshow that is rotating.  This is the only method of "reporting" that they show.  Where are the others that this "alliance" claims to be training and certifying as well?  Not one photo in the slideshow regarding voice or stenographic reporting, at least as of today.  Maybe when they get a load of my post they will change it to fool people even more.

Let's take this a step further and talk about the association.  Look at this snippet I took from the same page as the above picture:

Second paragraph says, "We are the official training and certification Alliance..."  Who made them official?  They don't even know what digital reporting is, how can they claim to know about all methods of reporting and being the "official" anything?  Who does their quality control to make sure that their methods of training and certifying are even legitimate?  I would love to talk to them.

Now look at this, taken from the same page:

In this snippet it talks about the "common goal of producing a verbatim and verifiable record."  Verifiable record?  Really?  If they need to prove their record is verbatim, maybe they shouldn't pretend to be verbatim.

Keep watching for more disingenuous marketing toward digital reporting.