Comic-Con Attendee Writes About Her Meaningless Press Badge

Annalee Newitz, editor-in-chief at science-fiction focused website io9.com, has a solid lead-in to this week’s massive Comic-Con affair in San Diego.

Although the cynical view is that the event has been fully co-opted by Hollywood, Newitz begs to differ. She writes that the press are lumped in, as they should be, with the event’s more important core constituency of the fans:

This is one of the only cons I know of where having a press pass means almost nothing.

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