Fri
Feb 5 2010
06:34 pm
By: R. Neal
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
So, 1/3 of the 600 attendees were media?!