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According to the Wall Street Journal:
Not only will bloggers have Internet access, workspaces and couches for napping in the "Big Tent" headquarters, they will be provided food and beverages, Google-sponsored massages, smoothies and a candy buffet.
All that for $100 a head.
With bloggers getting the royal treatment from Patron Saint Google, will traditional reporters be banging on the tent flaps, clamoring for equal time with the masseuses and, you know, a little effing respect?
The Pioneer Press has announced a handshake deal with news website Politico.com for RNC coverage. The Politico logo will be slapped onto the front page right next to that of the PiPress and Politico reporters will do the heavy lifting for somewhere in the neighborhood of several pages a day during convention week. There is a similar DNC arrangement with the Denver Post. PiPress Editor Thom Fladung explained the deal succinctly: "They are deeply sourced in DC."
More from the Editor & Publisher article:
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Slate correspondent (and, in the interests of full disclosure, my friend) David Roth shows how any candidate with $500 in his war chest and fire in his belly can get himself a perfectly-suited campaign advertisement.
You can watch his video here. And watch it you should.
You can read more about the good people who make these ads, a company called Spotrunner, here.
More >>I'm not going to lie to you, it's been a long couple of weeks at City Pages World Headquarters. The body is testing the LD-50 of Earl Grey tea. My dogs have forgotten what I look like. Every pair of pants I own is either dirty, ripped, or ripped and dirty. If I don't clean my house new forms of life may emerge and wreak a terrible vengeance.
Hence, City Pages is sending new staff writer Bradley Campbell and a couple of photographers to get a front seat at world history, while tonight I have a date with a Maytag and a laptop with streaming video.
I'll offer my perspective on MSNBC's coverage in this thread, which will be updated on occasion. Pretend I'm on-site liveblogging by checking out our photos of Obama from his trip to the Target Center in February.
7:15 p.m.: Man, that St. Paul crowd is juiced up for Amy Klobuchar. When they put her on the Jumbotron, you could tell that the Senator had a touch time hearing herself over the peoples' roars.
7:19 p.m.: Give Chris Matthews any excuse to bring up Larry Craig, and he's going to take it. Minneapolis airport bathroom jokes redux.
7:32 p.m.: Newsweek's Howard Fineman just called Hillary's campaign "Kaboobie Theater" before correcting himself and saying "Kabuki." Which is itself an inappropriate reference, but as least the malaprop will help me hit some search engines. Ah, Kaboobie.
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How Healthy Is John McCain?More >>By Michael Scherer and Alice Park
His bout with melanoma after the 2000 campaign makes his health and his age election issues today. Why he's still at risk
The round mound of rightwing scorn delights in the idea of human suffering being visited on the people of Denver, simply because they had the temerity to host a Democratic political convention.
Don't miss our sister paper Denver Westword's article on Rush Limbaugh's recent publicly-expressed glee over the idea of people rioting at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Money quote:
Within minutes of these words, however, Clear Channel Denver put out a press release claiming precisely the opposite. "A review of the full transcript... shows that LimbaughMore >>was not advocating violence in Denver at the Democratic National Convention," the document stated — and indeed, Limbaugh did say that "I am not inspiring or inciting riots" at one point. But this comment represented the briefest of asides amid a rambling, discursive take filled with observations like "Riots in Denver at the Democrat convention would see to it we don't elect Democrats — and that's the best damn thing that could happen for this country."
The Uptake -- the winners of City Pages' "Best Citizen-based Media Outlet" -- have just posted a video of themselves getting kicked out of many Elephant gatherings.
Take the jump for the play by play ...
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I don't know if Obama or Hillary won the debate, but I know who lost: ABC.
The network is being booed all over the Internet for ignoring serious issues like Iraq and the recession in favor of asking "gotcha" questions about flag pins on lapels, imaginary sniper fire, and ... the Weather Underground?
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As a journalist, I recognize that it's sometimes necessary to use anonymous quotes, but they should be used rarely, and carefully. Which is why I was stunned to read this paragraph in a piece on Obama's foreign policy experience in the new issue of Newsweek:
Even some Dems who'd favor him in any contest against McCain also worry that Obama is overplaying his experience. "I don't know whether he's drinking his own Kool-Aid," says a former senior member of the Clinton administration who is not backing either Democratic candidate but would talk only on condition of anonymity because of his private-sector job. "I'm all for talking to the Cubans, or to the Iranians. I'm just not sure he's the guy to do it. The biggest administrative job he ever had was collecting articles for the Harvard Law Review."
Emphasis added. The idea that this source is "not backing either candidate" even though he worked for Hillary's husband stretches credulity--especially in light of the harshness of the quote. ("I don't know whether he's drinking his own Kool-Aid ... The biggest administrative job he ever had was collecting articles for the Harvard Law Review.").
