Obama campaign charging media Election Night fees

[red states rule]

You can't make this up. Obama is worse then the money grubbing Clintons


Obama campaign charging media Election Night fees

CHICAGO (AP) - Media organizations will have to pay up if they want a prime spot to cover Democrat Barack Obama's Election Night party in a downtown lakefront park.

Obama's campaign, awash in money after raising a record-shattering $150 million last month, is asking news organizations to pay anywhere from $410 to $1,870 depending on where they want to be and if they want telephone or Internet service in Grant Park.

While it is customary for news organizations to pay their way when covering a presidential campaign, including transportation, hotels and Internet services, some have questioned the Obama campaign's plan.

"It smells a lot like paying for access," said Al Tompkins, a former TV news director who teaches broadcast and online journalism at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla.

For $1,870, a news organization can buy space on a main riser that will be covered, plus phone and Internet service, while $410 will get them space on a separate riser for photographers without out phone or Internet access, but with electrical power. A seat in a heated press filing center will cost $935 and include power, cable TV, Internet and food.

There is one press credential reporters can get for free. It will provide access to a standing-room-only outdoor press area with no services that "may have obstructed views."

Obama's campaign says it's charging the media only for the services it will be providing them, not for coverage, and that such fees are "standard procedure" in presidential campaigns.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008...on-night-fe-1/

[Gaffer]

Is there a discount if he loses?

[red states rule]

Is there a discount if he loses?

I am laughing they handed over the cash. Now if it was McCain who was ahead and was selling the space, the liberal media would be bitching

[Mr. P]

Is there a discount if he loses?

No, they'll more than make up the cost covering the riots that will follow.

[red states rule]

No, they'll more than make up the cost covering the riots that will follow.

and blaming Pres Bush as they duck the bricks coming their way

[Yurt]

and yet he still gets a pass from the media

this guy could try to use executive action to suspend the first amendment and the press would report:

"obama changes speech law to benefit america"

[red states rule]

and yet he still gets a pass from the media

this guy could try to use executive action to suspend the first amendment and the press would report:

"obama changes speech law to benefit america"

and all Obama had to do to get the pass was have a "D" at the end of his name