Oh, Dan Rather... too old to hop out of his chair and find something interesting to report on. If there's nothing going on, why is he there writing a diary? Referring to the silly photos of John Kerry at NASA in his suit, he commented:
This is what happens when something vaguely resembling “news” drops in the midst of packs of journalists starved for same—it gets chewed over ‘til there’s nothing left but the splintered, spit-out bones.
I beg to differ. Lazy journalists sieze on stories like this because they can be accessed via the AP (much like how I find out about stories). But, the key difference here is I'm not a journalist and I'm not at the convention. They are both. If the only thing the mainstream media can find to report is how Kerry looks silly in a chemical suit and Nader is trying to crash the convention (which for any number of reasons is unlikely to impossible), that sucks. Hardcore.
There's plenty going on, and if you need convincing, check those links over to the right of this post. A lot of people with blogs and brains are actually at the convention and are providing excellent reporting including, shock and awe, analysis! To the real journalists, I salute you.
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