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Originally Posted by Cimarron29414
I agree with you. We've delved into paparazzi journalism. Ideally, this guy would have scheduled an appointment and sat down with the Congressman. I don't know how realistic that is, however. Do congressman sit down with the blogger side of the media? Do you have to be AP to get consideration? Perhaps, some do and some don't.
One sees a lot of this in the ambush documentaries of the day as well. Michael Moore comes to mind first, but certainly it happens on all sides of all issues. They aren't even documentaries, when you think about it. The situations are so contrived as not to document events but to "create" events to film.
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just for the record, I am not singling out the conservative ambushers.
I agree, Michael Moore started it all.
It doesn't have to come to scheduling an appointment. I think members of Congress are leery of anyone purporting to be a journalist, but not displaying any credentials or identification. You can see the AP or CBS or FOX guys coming; they all wear their IDs.
You speak with a blogger...they edit it...you have no recourse, unlike speaking with a reputable media person (even FOX!)...well maybe not O'Reilly and his ambushers.