Wednesday, September 26, 2007
PUSHING FOR AL
The Daily Telegraph’s Saffron Howden attends - briefly - Al Gore’s Sydney speech:
The world will hear just five minutes of his message - because that was all the journalists, invited by his hired PR flacks, would allow the media to hear of Gore’s speech before they were rudely pushed out the door.
And I mean pushed.
A certain flack physically placed her hand on my back at the Convention Centre when Gore was mid-sentence during his speech (you had to pay up to $2500 for the privilege of hearing it in full) and propelled me towards the exit ...
Well, that works. Here’s a man who’s made it his life’s mission to teach the globe about climate change and our doomed future but he won’t let us listen.
By contrast, the SMH’s Marian Wilkinson - usually outraged by media censorship - seems relatively relaxed about the whole deal.