More pissing and whining from the media. This time aimed at the Democrats: "Media Upset With DNC Restroom Facilities"
As the majority of the print reporters arrived Saturday at the FleetCenter for the Democratic National Convention, tongues clucked when they saw the restroom facilities that they will be using for the next week.Let me guess, Drinkard's female counterpart has the title "chairwoman of the Sitting Committee of Correspondents".Twenty portable restrooms, like those used on construction sites, are lined up in front of the media pavilion to service nearly 1,200 members of the print media who will be working around the clock. That's about 60 serious coffee-drinkers per toilet.
"That's absurd," said Jim Drinkard, a political reporter for USA Today, when he heard of the ratio of toilets per media member. "This is not the type of planning you'd expect out of someone trying to be a good host."
Drinkard, who is also the chairman of the Standing Committee of Correspondents ...
Note that while the liberal protestors at the Republican's convention got a judge to ban the city from checking their backpacks or even using barriers to hold them back, the conservative protestors at the Dems convention will literally be confined in cages.
I am no longer capable of surprise at this sort of biased behaviour.
The good news about this pis-sy media is that it makes it more likely that the media will actually report on the debacle that this convention is/will be anywhere other than where the cameras are pointed.
Posted by: Timothy on July 25, 2004 12:48 AMWell, in fairness, those cages will also hold the far-left protestors at the DNC, too.
Posted by: John Thacker on July 25, 2004 06:57 AMWonder if this will stop the flow of information or if this will lead to a trickle down effect?
Posted by: Menlo Bob on July 25, 2004 06:49 PM