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Me With Onion Folks Speaking At The National Press Club, Plus Politico Coverage
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 23:23 | baratunde | tagged 2008 Elections, Baratunde, National Press Club, Panel, Politics, The Media, The Onion in Baratunde-News
I've been a journalism geek for a long time. In high school, I enrolled in a summer journalism program at American University, and as part of the class we got to visit the National Press Club. It was the summer that baseball almost died (again), and Bud Selig had been named acting commissioner. We got a tour of the building and got to attend his luncheon talk.
Well, some 15 years later, I returned to the NPC victorious and shared the stage with coworkers from The Onion. Our charge: discuss this election season and our coverage.
Here's an audio recording of the event. (apparently mainstream media is in such bad shape that they couldn't afford to record images as well). And here's the Politico's post-event report in which they reprint our post-event report
and we wonder why the media is in the state it's in? :)
Well, some 15 years later, I returned to the NPC victorious and shared the stage with coworkers from The Onion. Our charge: discuss this election season and our coverage.
Here's an audio recording of the event. (apparently mainstream media is in such bad shape that they couldn't afford to record images as well). And here's the Politico's post-event report in which they reprint our post-event report
and we wonder why the media is in the state it's in? :)
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