{"id":37808,"date":"2009-11-06T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091106\/1551566841.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-06T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T02:01:00","slug":"sarah-palin-joins-al-gore-in-not-realizing-that-everyones-a-reporter-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/37808","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin Joins Al Gore In Not Realizing That Everyone&#8217;s A Reporter These Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, we wrote how odd it was that former VP Al Gore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20080325\/192958651.shtml\">banned reporters<\/a> from a speech he gave, where all audio-video equipment was also banned.  These days, such &#8220;no reporters allowed&#8221; speeches make no sense &#8212; because <i>anyone<\/i> can be a reporter.  Yet, it seems that there&#8217;s something in the veep sauce (or veep wannabe sauce) that leads to these sorts of positions, as former VP candidate, Sarah Palin, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13578_3-10392656-38.html?part=rss&#038;subj=news&#038;tag=2547-1_3-0-20\" >is trying to do the same thing<\/a>, barring &#8220;reporters&#8221; along with any kind of recording devices from a talk that she is giving.  You can understand, perhaps, <i>why<\/i> politicians like to do this, but it seems both out of touch and completely pointless.  Every single person in that room can be a reporter in one way or another &#8212; and it doesn&#8217;t take a recording device, but a pencil and some paper (or a decent memory).  Trying to block out the &#8220;official&#8221; press is just a waste of time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091106\/1551566841.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091106\/1551566841.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091106\/1551566841&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=7ecfae05741acf36a53c6296ad2fa003&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=7ecfae05741acf36a53c6296ad2fa003&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=jUNk0HbRx-I:o_MzoNHEEuk:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=jUNk0HbRx-I:o_MzoNHEEuk:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=jUNk0HbRx-I:o_MzoNHEEuk:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/jUNk0HbRx-I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, we wrote how odd it was that former VP Al Gore banned reporters from a speech he gave, where all audio-video equipment was also banned. These days, such &#8220;no reporters allowed&#8221; speeches make no sense &#8212; because anyone can be a reporter. Yet, it seems that there&#8217;s something in the veep sauce (or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}