August 30, 2004
Media Feeding Frenzy
Posted by The Editors | 06:09 PM
Conventions are like a sunless summer camp for journalists, who, like hyper pre-teens, get cranky if they can't eat quickly and conveniently.
After enduring a single, tiny snackstand in the media workspace in Boston -- and the $10 turkey sandwiches -- what deskbound convo journalist wasn't thrilled at the the prospect of an actual "restaurant" set up in one corner of the main press area in New York? Hot sandwiches, chicken, gourmet salads, all there for the taking (at half the cost of Boston, no less). Alas, it was only a ruse -- by lunch today, when actual convention proceedings had been under way for less than 3 hours, the "restaurant" ran out of food. No chicken. No salads. No fruit cups. No sandwiches. Just hot dogs. Dozens and dozens of hot dogs.
One has to wonder how the folks in charge underestimated the appetites of journalists on an expense account, -- a ravenous bunch if ever there was one. -- From Jason Thompson, NationalJournal.com
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Still there may be a silver lining for those of you on low-carb diets.
Posted by: Basil Valentine at August 31, 2004 09:18 AM
