NY Observer > R.W. Apple http://www.observer.com/taxonomy/term/29511/feed Articles from Observer.com en 2008: The Year Convention Blogging Broke http://www.observer.com/2008/media/2008-year-convention-blogging-broke

Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal's Amy Schatz reported that Google would be setting up a "two-story, 8,000 square-foot headquarters for hundreds of bloggers descending on the Democratic convention in Denver next week, and it will offer similar services at the Republican convention in September, as new media gain influence in politics."

According to Ms. Schatz, for $100, Google will provide access to the workspace along with "food and beverages, Google-sponsored massages, smoothies and a candy buffet."

If it's half as comfortable as it sounds, it will be a vast improvement over bloggers' digs during the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York.  read more »

]]> http://www.observer.com/2008/media/2008-year-convention-blogging-broke#comments Ana Marie Cox Google Inc. Jack Germond R.W. Apple Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:00:25 -0400 Matt Haber 73474 at http://www.observer.com R.W. Apple Socialized With Liberal Dems http://www.observer.com/node/33627 R.W. Apple's 12/5 memorial service at the Kennedy Center, lately rebroadcast on C-Span, was a good look at the social ways of powerful journalists. Apple seems to have socialized—surprise—on the Democratic lib/left. A eulogist, the powerful corporate lobbyist Anne Wexler, who is married to former NEH boss Joseph Duffey, reminisced about meals that Apple would throw together in the '70s for her husband, who was running on the left in Connecticut, and Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda. Meanwhile, Wexler was working for McGovern. There's nothing wrong with this; journalists are people too, with predilections. What's bothersome is the pretense that they are culturally-neutral seers. They tend to be on the center-left and vote Democratic and support abortion rights. You heard it here first.]]> http://www.observer.com/node/33627#comments Apple Inc. Jane Fonda R.W. Apple Tom Hayden Wed, 03 Jan 2007 03:21:04 -0500 Observer Staff 33627 at http://www.observer.com