Media Say Convention Restroom Facilities Lacking

[JohnLocke]

Media Say DNC Restroom Facilities Lacking
By Brian Johnson -- Associated Press
Saturday, July 24, 2004
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BOSTON (AP) - Media members, already perturbed by long security lines, may find themselves waiting in line for something nearly as important. As the majority of the print reporters arrived Saturday at the FleetCenter for the Democratic National Convention, tongues clucked when they saw the restroom facilities that they will be using for the next week.
Twenty portable restrooms, like those used on construction sites, are lined up in front of the media pavilion to service nearly 1,200 members of the print media who will be working around the clock. That's about 60 serious coffee-drinkers per toilet.
"That's absurd," said Jim Drinkard, a political reporter for USA Today, when he heard of the ratio of toilets per media member. "This is not the type of planning you'd expect out of someone trying to be a good host."
Drinkard, who is also the chairman of the Standing Committee of Correspondents, said he was told by the DNCC, the committee in charge of planning the convention, that the lack of toilets was a move aimed at cutting costs. Calls to the DNCC press office were not immediately returned.
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"We were led to believe there would be trailer units,'' Drinkard said, referring to the restrooms used at the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Drinkard said that the trailers could get pretty unpleasant after a week of heavy use.
"But they are much better than Porta-Johns," he said.
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[MikeG]

1. Those in the media not full of shit will have no problem.

[realisticphish]

3. LMAO n/t

[ronnykmarshall]

14. Fox must be hogging them all up.

[Endangered Specie]

16. ROFL!

<RIMSHOT!>

[VoteDemocratic2004]

2. Give the asshole media a box to go in

If a cat can shit in a litter box then a bunch of assholes can do the same thing.

Cat's are so much better then right wing jerks that fake the news.

Hell, the women don't have to worry about a mirror they all look the same and their makeup is on so thick that it will stay on for at least 12 hours under a hot light.

Pass out Media Squawk boxes for them to shit in sorry about being so blunt.

:evilgrin:

[asjr]

4. They have crapped all over us, let them crap on themselves.

[Raven]

5. The media are notorious for being spoiled.

They bitch about everything. They threaten to write unfavorable articles if they don't get the best of everything. They are generally a pretty pathetic bunch. I say, let them pee in their collective pants.

[JohnLocke]

6. Kick (nt).

[hedda_foil]

7. Sorry, but this was a stupid, stupid move.

The pukes are providing the spoiled rotten kool press kiddies with free massages, spa privileges and God knows what else. Who do you think is going to get better coverage? The last thing the Dems need to do is make the press even more sour than they already are.

[Endangered Specie]

17. Escort service too...

the NY 'business'es predict a huge boost in Sept.

[JohnLocke]

8. Kick

[Radical Activist]

9. Thank goodness we have the

media to cover these serious issues we should ALL be concerned about! Just imagine what kind of stories we might get if a journalist ever had to deal with REAL problems like having their job outsourced to Mexico or India, or trying to raise two kids as a single parent making minimum wage. Journalists are so fucking out of touch.

[PVnRT]

10. Eh

Just get drunk and piss in the alleyways, everyone does it.

[JohnLocke]

11. Kick

[JohnLocke]

12. Kick

[JohnLocke]

13. Kick

[JohnLocke]

15. Kick

[Endangered Specie]

18. They can dig a fucking latrine for all I care.

[name not needed]

19. Who gives a shit?

:P