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Ellen Wallace
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A little note on the high cost of covering elections as an accredited journalist: $29,700 for the package that gets you a little closer to the winner, and $495 for the lower end of the scale, a spot in Chicago’s Grant Park that might give you a couple good photos of Barack Obama’s Party’s party. That’s the word from one of the guys who can’t afford the high-end coverage, Jerry Davich, a Post-Tribune columnist/blogger from nearby Indiana, a local paper without the kind of cash bigger media will have to cough up to cover the event.

Being limited to watching a big-screen version of the event from Geneva is starting to sound pretty good, even affordable.

Posted by :: Ellen Wallace on 29 October 2008 at 10:49 | permalink
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GenevaLunch, 29 October 2008.

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