Post by Logan on Feb 6, 2016 23:01:59 GMT -6
How reporters do their job isn’t much of a story until the story becomes how your elective representatives deliberately make it harder for reporters to cover them.
That’s what happened when Republicans threw reporters off the floor of the Virginia Senate, exiling them to the gallery.
Nineteen days later, this past Monday — after negotiations between the Senate Republican leadership and the Virginia Capital Correspondents Association — reporters returned to the floor. The tables at which they worked were gone, replaced with six cramped, table-desk combos that recall what I sat in as a schoolboy during detention study hall.
This episode should be remembered for what it was: a pre-emptive, punitive exercise by senators who don’t like reporters.
Read more: www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/jeff-schapiro/article_0f09cf2c-a18a-51eb-94cb-988d10c27930.html
That’s what happened when Republicans threw reporters off the floor of the Virginia Senate, exiling them to the gallery.
Nineteen days later, this past Monday — after negotiations between the Senate Republican leadership and the Virginia Capital Correspondents Association — reporters returned to the floor. The tables at which they worked were gone, replaced with six cramped, table-desk combos that recall what I sat in as a schoolboy during detention study hall.
This episode should be remembered for what it was: a pre-emptive, punitive exercise by senators who don’t like reporters.
Read more: www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/jeff-schapiro/article_0f09cf2c-a18a-51eb-94cb-988d10c27930.html