Journalists like to think of themselves as VIPs but in the harsh
brutal world, they tend to learn they are anything but – except when it
comes to campaign events.
At these events, journalists are invited to roped off press areas,
allowed to skip the long line waiting to get in and allowed to get
closer to the politician than most of the attendees – though not close
enough to actually ask questions of the politicians.
Press areas clearly show who is important at these kind of events – the press.
Journalists like this treatment. Journalists simply don’t have time
to meddle with the public at these events. It’s important that
journalists are roped off from the general public so be not disturbed
while they blog, twitter and ignore write about the recycled cliched speech.
In these press areas, journalists, equipped with press passes giving
access to such areas, sit in front of computer and Blackberry screens,
conversing with fellow journalists while looking out at the suckers public who had to wait in a two-hour line to get in.
But as soon as the event is over, journalists lose their VIP status
and return to the world of less pay and next-to-zilch respect.
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