49 // via Samsung Instinct M800: Just the Facts
This is a press conference. I was at one today. It’s been a while. As a government and politics reporter, I used to find myself at these on a regular basis, so I was somewhat nostalgic.
I shouldn’t love press conferences. If you’re at a press conference, you somehow can’t help but feel you missed the story, that you should have somehow scooped the info coming out of the event before the event was held.
But I do love press conferences. Yes. I used to know all the people at them and they knew me, and we had a sense of community, collegiality. Even if you were trying to shank each other to get to the story first.
So, why is a fat, over-the-hill pasty white English former reporter turned desk jockey editor doing here? “You’ve been promoted and sent up the hill with the generals. Why would you be back in the front lines, sir?”
Well, today at the paper I work for we tried something new: Twittering the event live. Gubbins here was the keyboard monkey. And I think I acquitted myself quite well, thank you.
