If News Breaks at the Convention and There Are 5,000 Reporters There to Hear It, Does it Matter?

Stop reporting at me all at once! So, yeah, there are a lot of reporters here at an event where there is very little unscripted news.

“I feel like this is the dumb state of reporting in a presidential campaign,” said Michael Scherer, a writer for Time magazine. “Everyone is spending time and millions of dollars to break something six hours before it’s announced.”

There’s 10 million people watching TV, and if we can’t find something that’s not on the TV to be useful about, then what the hell is my paper paying me to be here? I feel morally obliged to be running around futilely trying to find something.