The Chronicle of Higher Education

Convention Notebook: the Democrats

By JEFFREY SELINGO

Boston

Ink-Stained Kvetches

Political conventions these days produce little news, but that didn't stop 15,000 members of the news media from converging on Boston last week for the Democratic National Convention. With more than three media hounds for every delegate, the press itself became a news event.

Indeed, covering the newspaper,...

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