WashingtonPost.com A chatter asks
Anne Kornblut what she thinks about
Jack Shafer's
suggestion that news orgs boycott the conventions. The Washington Post reporter responds: "I have to agree somewhat. My feeling is that in tough economic times -- when some papers, though mercifully not so much at the Post, are closing down whole bureaus and covering foreign news less -- we should send everyone out with laptops to find actual news rather than to hang out at a canned event."
ALSO: Kornblut discusses "a very unfortunate incident involving
a lie one of the [Clinton] press folks told to undermine a story I had written."
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Yes, ignore the infomercial, but Shafer's suggestion isn't the way to do it
