What Journos Really Do at the DNC

A whopping 15,000 journalists arrived in Denver to cover the Democratic National Convention. The Columbia Journalism Review sent Justin Peters to find out what they're doing:  

• 7,500 mostly mill about: "Only a small number of reporters actually have a reason to be here."
• 2, 294 pace the parking lot, "mournfully wandering around like Diogenes, looking for stories."
• 1,026 get drunk.

• 500 beg for credentials: "It’s Denver’s answer to the Island of Misfit Toys."
• 62 get massages.
• 7 take photos with rum mascot Captain Morgan.
• 1 tries to land an interview with both Morgan and "Democratic legend" Ted Sorenson: "That person is me, and, in this, I am a failure."

  Follow the link below to see what the rest are up to. (More lists stories.)