Blogger gets White House credentials
Garrett M. Graff, the 23-year-old who writes MediaBistro's new FishbowlDC blog, joined the White House briefing room today as the first blogger granted a daily White House press pass.
After the Jeff Gannon affiar, he began a quest to see how easy it was to get a press pass. According to The New York Times, he got nowhere after 20 phone calls, though traffic to his blog increased tenfold after other bloggers picked up on it.
But it was not until the traditional media joined in, Graff told The Times, that the White House relented.
"USA Today started making calls on Thursday. CNN mentioned it on 'Inside Politics,' and Ron Hutcheson, president of the White House Correspondents Association, raised the issue with the White House Press Office," he said. "I think a combination of all of that made the White House pay attention and decide to let me in."
You can read his first full post here: "All-in-all, it's been a remarkably uneventful morning--which, we're told, is what most mornings are like at the White House," he wrote.
And the follow-up post ("All day, our presence in the belly of the beast has been attracting interest from reporters of various persuasions. Three most frequently asked questions: 'What's a Blogger?' 'You're wearing pants?' and 'Are you really sober?') here.
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