At the bloggers breakfast, Rod O’Connor, CEO of the DNC, explained that the convention is a “live TV show” as if this were a good thing. Then they brought out Pultizer-prize-winning AP legend, Walter Mears who started a blog for the AP yesterday. A blogger asked why the Big Media have cut back their Convention coverage. “We’d love a convention where decisions are made,” he said. But conventions today are just scripted media events.

So, there we have the irony in the space of eating a single bagel for breakfast: The Convention folks think their job is to script an event for the news media, and the news media don’t want to cover an event that’s been scripted.

Another blogger asked Mears: So why do 15,000 media people show up? Because, Mears said, “it’s a great class reunion and a hell of a party.”

Meanwhile, I’m sitting on the 7th floor of the Fleet Center, watching the big stage below me as Patti Labelle belts out a hair-straightening version of the national anthem…to an empty house. Presumably, you’ll get to see that performance later, if the media decide to run it.

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