Wednesday, August 18, 2010
By Dorie Clark
Press conferences used to be the ultimate showdown—newsmaker vs. reporter, mano-a-mano, cage-match style. But in recent years, they’ve become a paltry wisp of their former selves. Nowadays, you’re more likely to get political candidates scrambling off a bus with their pre-fabricated legions of sign-holding interns, hitting the steps of City Hall for a nice photo op—and giving a rousing speech to one reporter, some pigeons, and a homeless dude nearby (the exact scenario Boston Magazine
teased Charlie Baker about during his recent “Had Enough?” bus tour)