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(This story was written last night but we couldn’t post it because of fading wi-fi and near terminal exhaustion)
You know you’ve reached the big time in American Journalism when
Jerry Springer comes to call. The talk-show-host turned politician
just stopped into Blogger’s Row. He
is shaking hands and signing autographs. We will try to ask him
a few questions., like if he knows what a blog is.
Appearantly he does, although he doesn’t write one or even read them.
However, he has an acute sense of catching the wave of a rising
new tide, and has become convinced, he told us, that "This is the new
politics, the modern day politics."
Several bloggers crowd around. We want to ask him some questions.
Some bloggers just wnat to get their picture taken with him. But Jerry
is not in a mood to be interviewed.
Oh no, Jerry is interviewing US. He doesn’t want to answer questions,
he wants to ask them. In fact, he has come equipped with a camera and
microphone crew, unobtrusively blocking our view of the floor, and proceed
to ask several of the more photogenic bloggers questions like "How do
you think of things to write about?"
Behind us two 18-year olds are talking
on their cellphones about how cool it is
to
be at the convention and
what
kind
of
view they
have of
the screen from their seats. They are so absorbed in their preening
that they haven’t noticed the media event happening a few feet in front
of them. Suddenly they notice the man with the microphone.
"Oh my God, Oh my God, its Jerry Springer, he’s UP
HERE
WITH US!"
We decided it was a good time for a bathroom break.
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