Media genuflects to Tea Party for access
Submitted by R. Neal on Fri, 2010/02/05 - 6:34pm

Tennessean:

After some hesitation, convention founder Judson Phillips finally agreed to allow the Tennessee media brief access to Tea Party grounds.

A dozen or so statewide reporters and camera crews genuflected and were ushered into the main convention lobby around noon.

There we joined the credentialed media — who now number 200, we’re told — including at least one freelancer for the Huffington Post and two pre-teen girls who had some questions for their blogs.

Genuflected. Heh.

(By way of ACK)

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There we joined the

Submitted by EricLykins on Mon, 2010/02/08 - 1:19pm.

There we joined the credentialed media — who now number 200,

So, 1/3 of the 600 attendees were media?!

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