A Select Few Bloggers Make It To The Floor

While many members of the press have had to ration passes to enter Denver's Pepsi Center during this week's Democratic National Convention, the red carpet has been rolled out for a select few.

These elites have joined their state delegations on the floor and used high-speed Internet hookups reserved for their laptops. They have filed reports from a special location in the Pepsi Center that is close to the action. And they have obtained backstage podium passes for exclusive interviews with powerful lawmakers leaving the main stage.

Are they network television anchors? Nationally known journalists? Try bloggers. The Democratic National Committee has gone to great lengths to accommodate the roughly 500 bloggers it has credentialed for the
2008 gathering. While most are domestic, some traveled from as far as Argentina, Guam, Puerto Rico and Spain.

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