At the Conventions, New Media Eats Old Media for Complimentary Continental Breakfast
Gooooooooogle's Os are for the free doughnuts
 


Jackshaf is totes going to have his plans for boycotting the DNC /giant media clusterfuck foiled when the press shows up and is treated to Google's elaborate arrangements for bloggers. Google is setting up a two-story "camp" for bloggers covering the event in Denver next week, and for only 100 clams, even the most dubious news source can be treated like kings with a set-up that includes internet, "nap spaces," food and beverages, massages, "smoothies and a candy buffet."

The really incredible part of this story, however, is reminding us just how new this new media really is:

Four years ago, Google wasn't a significant presence at the Democratic and Republican conventions…… Four years ago, YouTube hadn't been founded yet. Now, it will have booths at each convention to help delegates and bloggers upload videos taken on the floor or at events around town.

Are they sure about this? That YouTube hasn't been around since the turn of the 19th century? We're nearly certain it's how Kennedy was called out for his Ich bin ein Berliner gaffe?

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What a stinking pile of crap these moronic, idiotic, non-newsworthy, piece of dung conventions are. They are dumb, they serve no real purpose, they are not news (sorry, all 15,000 of you misguided souls), and they are all huge, stinking, stupid wastes of time, money and resources. And that's the truth, and we all know it. Most reporters just go for the parties. But it's still a huge, stinking waste of time, money and resources. That's all there is to it.

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