The Democratic National Convention has only just begun, but for members of the media working in Philadelphia, the DNC is a logistical nightmare. New York Times op-ed columnist Andrew Rosenthal said compared to other conventions “this is the worst I’ve ever seen.”
The complaints include sites that are too far from each other, lousy wi-fi, and air conditioning that doesn’t seem to be working. And tonight, with thunderstorms drenching the city, the problems have only gotten worse:
Too soon to congratulate Cleveland for better planning, logistics? Really, there's water covering electrical equipmt INSIDE DNC media center
Advertisement— Kristin Roberts (@KristinPolitico) July 25, 2016
Media tent is about to collapse and is made of metal but the upside is that we'll go down in style. #DNCinPHL pic.twitter.com/5C93hBww6C
— Elizabeth Plank (@feministabulous) July 25, 2016
As the storm rolled in, Fusion journalist Tim Pool was one of the people forced to evacuate a media press tent:
We are being evacuated due to the storm at the #DNCinPHL pic.twitter.com/SftAVhoQsJ
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) July 25, 2016
OH in the media tent: "I'm just going to go back to Cleveland."
— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) July 25, 2016
Even walking through the rain tonight, my shirt is still drier than most earlier in the day during peak #heatwave #DemsInPhilly
— Chris Ariens (@ChrisAriens) July 26, 2016