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Climate change superstar Al Gore banned the press from his appearance Friday at the tail end of the RSA Conference on information security in San Francisco. The move seemed like a joke: Surely, Valleywag's editors reasoned, the roomful of high-IQ IT professionals carrying wireless communications devices into Gore's presentation would blog, tweet and shoot the whole thing. Gore would be streamed live to Qik via multiple videophones. No need for a pro journalist to sneak into Gore's talk and liveblog it, as I used to do with Steve Jobs keynotes. Web 2.0 had it covered. So what really happened? The only on-time account of the event came from CNET reporter Robert Vamosi, who used his conference speaker badge to get past security. Vamosi posted a thorough report less than an hour after Gore began. Hey Robert, didn't you get the memo? You're supposed to be out of work by now.
Citizen journalism fails Al Gore
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8:20 AM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Paul Boutin
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Maybe the secret is that Gore has nothing of value to communicate.
I'm only interested in the part of the movie where Mr. Creosote eats the thin mint and explodes.
What was there to report? Gore talked about boring threats to our land, seas, and air. Had he talked about Twitter or Sarah Lacy's book, that would have been different.
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