Prom Dates, Part I

One emailer this morning pointed out the shame of this whole exercise: “Catty, I know, but it’s what we do.” We couldn’t agree more. Three notes so far today:

• Reuters is planning a pre-party cocktail hour, but the word on the street is that the event might be targeted by the wire service’s aggressive and grievance-filled union for some sort of action: “Reuters could have some problems on their hands if its workers, tired of getting screwed by their parent company, choose to do some lobbying at the high profile event,” our source says.