How on Earth is this Times piece about how it is too expensive for reporters to actually tag along with campaigns not headlined "On This Year's Bus, Fewer Boys (and Girls)" or something along those lines? "The Buzz on the Bus" barely qualifies as one of those Timesian barely qualifying puns. Anyway, it's a bad thing that no newspapers send reporters on the bus (or plane) anymore, because newspapers are dying, but it's also a good thing, because of blogs and the YouTube. Also there is a picture of Mark Halperin playing make-believe reporter and looking cold. [NYT]
Broke Newspapers Didn't Want to Cover Campaigns Anyway
11:12 AM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Pareene
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A small but growing number of reporters are missing the bus.
"Fucking Podunk, PA! I can't log onto iTunes out here!"
The campaign trail will never be the same with the loss of Hunter S. Thompson.
GET OUT OF THERE BEFORE THE DRIVER SEES YOU!
Print journalists, thrown under the bus
Print journos ride the short bus
Jewish influence in politics gives up gains in Ohio bus incident. In odd twist on Rosa Parks, journalist resigns him self to stowaway compartment.
@Toomanytomatoes: "I'm Harrison from The Post...here, try the blue ones, they always worked for me."
@Toomanytomatoes: Yes - I immediately thought of Hunter. You have to love a guy who gives his press credentials to a heckler who gets drunk and tortures everyone on a "whistle stop" campaign tour.
the restraint this photog exerts in not kicking him into the luggage bin is incredible.
Also, is this really a story? The next big contest isn't until April 22, plus modern presidential campaigns are usually wrapped up by now, with one Republican, one Democrat, and one third-party crazy ol' coot left in the race. So, it's not unusual that budgets would be strained and that spending is down during the lull. Even Obama's on vacation right now.
David Simon to thread..
@VoxPopuli: Take it up with the prior first lady, punk:
@VoxPopuli: I heard he's gone off with a six-year-old."
@VoxPopuli: Don't you think Obama in St. Thomas is something reports want to / need to be covering? $2,000 for a plane ticket to the sunny isles seems a bargain to me.
Ha, nice how the Times rubs it in just a little bit with a photo from a travelling campaign photographer.
This luggage rack looks spacious. Do you think it's rent-controlled?
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