Croaktown P.D. — Known Associates File · Exhibit G
Jiminy Pressley
'The Headline'
Senior cricket correspondent, The Daily Ribbit
The chirp that sells the swamp its own scandals back. Jiminy Pressley turns every PooPee arrest into front-page lily-pad copy — and has never once gotten a printable word out of the soft brother across the water.
How he met PooPee
Jiminy was a struggling court-beat cricket with a failing column until the day PooPee walked out of a courthouse smiling. He ran the photo. The edition sold out in an hour. Jiminy has been PooPee's unofficial press office ever since — technically adversarial, functionally devoted, and always, always in print.
He insists he covers the crew objectively. The crew insists he covers them constantly, which is nearly the same thing and much better for the crew.
What he wrote up
Every count on the rap sheet has a matching front page in the Ribbit's morgue, most of them Jiminy's. He does not break the cases; he sells them. A raid is a tragedy on page one and a boom in circulation on page one of the ledger.
He tried, once, to write up the soft twin from across the water. He could not find a headline in him. He says the frog couldn't make news if he fell into the press itself — which Jiminy considers the single most damning thing he has ever filed.
He's the only frog in this swamp who sells papers. The other one couldn't make news if he fell in the press itself.
Where this name turns up in the file
- The rap sheet — every count he put on page oneThe charges, as the Ribbit ran them.
- The feud — the twin who couldn't make newsOne twin sells papers; one couldn't make a headline in a flood.
- The glossary — swamp terms, definedLook up 'The Daily Ribbit,' 'the morgue,' and 'circulation.'
- The whole crew, one line eachEvery toad, cricket, and skeeter on the payroll.