DCist: Conventionist: Highlights From DNC Day 1

seth

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:20:26 -0500

Sommer Mathis, you need a journalistic kick in the ass. You're squandering an opportunity of historic proportions. Writing about the food and crowded elevators, you're just contributing to the glazed-over eyes of readers looking for a reason to care about this election or about democracy. Instead of wasting your time at the liquor industry lobby party, you could have been digging into the underpinnings of the convention. Look at the story about how CNN decided to allocate $100,000 of their meager budget to rent a 'skycam' for Obama's acceptance speech. What a great example of style over content and proof positive that broadcast journalism has lost it's way journalistically. Think of the in-depth investigative reporting they could have funded with that $100,000. Nope. Skycam. Mathis, wake up. Get in there and start talking to people. Go check out the protesters exiled a mile away and see what they're bitching about. Good job on the 'taxation without representation' photos. Keep that kind of thing up. Do you need some assignments? Go ask some of the most fervent delegates how long they think their candidate is going to staff ongoing military installations in Iraq regardless of the resolution of the war. Oh, and don't just write summaries of what people saw on tv here. I could have written that for you after watching the event on digital cable. You're a writer working for free. You're stoked because you've gotten something to put on your resume. A future prospective employer will be more wowed if you come out of this event with something in your portfolio. Complaints about the food and elevators ain't gonna get you your next job. Seth

monkeyrotica

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:34:04 -0500

BooBoo the Bear in leather asschaps has my vote, too. He defends gay marriage with a bloodthirsty snarl. He supports your Second Amendment right to keep and arm bears. And he's comfortable with his lifestyle choice. The only thing standing between him and the White House is a history of swiping picnic baskets. But if he gets Karl Rove in his camp, I feel he can mount a successful smear campaign against Ranger Smith.

IMGoph

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:11:02 -0500

vote for change——vote for the nickel

Wizzyliz

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:56:50 -0500

Thank you, DCist! You've helped me decide who I'm voting for in November. It ain't Obama.......It ain't McCain.......It is that bear cub in the leather chaps.

Guy LaDouche

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:59:35 -0500

What a bunch of jackasses.

rabo k

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:53:52 -0500

politics drive this town ya'll, just because it is happening in denver doesn't mean it is irrelevent to dc peeps. how about that ted kennedy? what better way to connect with the average american voter than by running a video of teddy sailing on HIS YACHT. if it's one thing everyone can relate to, it's SAILING A YACHT. let's hope they get this stuff out of the way now so we don't see obama goose hunting in the paper down the home stretch.

boondoggle

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:32:15 -0500

Don't look down on the concession stand hot dog, USDA regulated at no more than 2% donkey meat. At the DNC that's authenticity you can taste.

monkeyrotica

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:31:27 -0500

So when did dcist become denverist? I really fail to see how any of this convention coverage has any relevance to dcist readership. Yeah, I suppose, one of these clowns will end up living downtown, and spewing a bunch of patronizing rhetoric about how shameful it is that DC residents have no voting rights, and we need to have a "war for the vote" and proceed to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT IT FOR THE NEXT FOUR TO EIGHT YEARS. Like LNS, we really need to just ignore the convention and hope it goes away. Besides, whatever happened to that bear cub in the leather chaps?

Nate

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:11:02 -0500

Seriously ... you left during the most "important" speech of the night so that you could go to a booze industry party? Also, people need to just get over the fact that DCist is at the convention, already. The Dems deliberately decided to woo younger, local-issue-oriented voters by inviting a "state blogger corps" to the convention, and DCist got one of the DC slots. I'm sure that if the Republicans are offering something similar at their convention, DCist has attempted to get one of those slots as well. If they don't offer the opportunity, though, it won't be DCist's fault that there's "unequal" coverage.

dodgecitydave

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:00:03 -0500

My wrap up of the first convention day: Look at me I'm great, lie, lie, lie, glorious history of the party, lie, lie, yaaawwwwnnnn, lie, lie, lie, change, lie, lie, yaawwnn. Bet I could use this tomorrow, too.

Politburo

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:55:30 -0500

So how long were you waiting to use that line?

Wizzyliz

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:30:14 -0500

The last time I checked this was DCist.com, not DNCist.com