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This is why I watch the conventions on CSPAN:
“In the name of all that’s holy, shut up. “When exactly did the primary goal of journalists become not talking to news-makers, but talking over them? CNN, MSNBC and Fox News boast that they’re covering an event the broadcast networks are ignoring. But they’re not so much covering it as smothering it, using the convention as fodder for a 24-hour run of radio-talk-with-pictures. Unless you’re one of the privileged big-draw speakers in the show’s final hour, you’re not just ignored — you’re treated as an annoyance.”
I feel for Robert Bianco. This is why our convention watching (for either convention) is via CSPAN, no talking heads, no opinion pieces, no opinion pieces disguised as factual reporting.