Doug Henwood on Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:59:01 +0100 (CET) |
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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> All right, I admit it -- I went to Davos |
wade tillett wrote: >Surely the good folks at the wef, that bastion of >democracy, wanted to hear my voice, but the police would have none of >it and finally forced me to leave... without my free compaq mind >you!!! Pity the poor journalist trying to cover the WEF. A minority of selected hacks - from the NYT, CNBC, etc. - were designated members of the "participating press," while most of us were designated the "reporting press." The participating press got into the Waldorf (aka the Walled-Off), while the reporting press was exiled to a neighoring hotel, where we got to read some press releases, view selected events on closed-circuit TV, and hear the occasional press conferences. The press conferences were so short that there was hardly any time for questions after the opening statments were uttered. At least I got to see Bono & BillG@microsoft.com. For more, see next week's Nation magazine. Among the more interesting registrants, according to the official list (bizarrely marked "confidential"): Homi Bhabha, Manuel Castells, Naomi Campbell, Danny Schechter, Warren & Annette, Ossie Davis, George Friedman (Stratfor), Jenny Holzer. Doug _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold