As a blogger, a journalist trying to break into a major daily, and someone who has a masters of journalism, I really think that allowing bloggers/citizen journalists credentials to big events or press conferences would inhibit the functionality of the events for everyone involved. Journalists who are in media scrums are like a pack of wolves, we fight and bicker over scraps(quotes, facts, etc) but we all more or less move in the same general direction for the same purpose. This allows us to get the most possible information in a short amount of time from the people we need access to. This ...
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