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The Blog, The Press, The Media: Conventions Are Ruthless Darwinian Competitions
Conventions are often portrayed as joyous, nonstop festivals of party-hopping. In truth, they're ruthless Darwinian competitions, in which those who have attained high status, or are particularly adept at networking, gorge themselves on crab cakes and foie gras, while the socially inept are left behind to scrounge hotel vending-machine fare. The struggle is so fierce and so elemental that it consumes almost every waking moment. It is almost impossible to have a conversation with anybody without asking, or being asked, Do you know what parties are going on tonight, and, if yes, can you get me in? It is the closest approximation an adult can have to being in the ninth grade, and, for me, the result was eerily similar.
• Party Pooper, Jonathan Chait, on the need for reporters to avoid human contact unless absolutely necessary [ Kevin Klose of NPR fame: Because the media systems in Europe and the States are so different from each other, it's worth taking a quick look at the history and topography of American broadcast media ]
• · See Also Paul Graham amazing essay on Great Hackers [ courtesy of (Ftrain.com) August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web ]
• · · See Also Blogger supposedly having been fired
• · · · See Also Blogs, journalism: Different factions of the write wing
• · · · · The net has become a place where legends are made as crusaders from around the globe begin to surface in reports on web logs and media sites Media Dragon Crusaders; [TimT White Knight from Newcastle ]
• · · · · · They outraged an advertiser, pissed off the publisher or fell afoul of right- or left-wing political correctness: Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot to Print