After a four and a half hour drive we’ve arrived on the campus of Missouri Southern State University for President Obama’s commencement address for the students of Joplin High School. There’s a signficant media presence.
A temporary city of broadcast satellite trucks has been set up in a parking lot near the venue.
A forest of tripods.
We’ll be adding more as we can.
Not only are the folks working less frazzled than last year, they have a media work room, complete with snacks and drinks, and every five minutes someone comes in and asks us if we need anything. I think I’ll ask the next one for a loan…
Our video and still equipment got booted. We were instructed to remove it all. We were allowed to return without our equipment (but got to keep our laptops, so we’ll live blog via Twitter). @MBersin and @BGinKC
P.S. The Stenographer is sitting almost directly in front of me.
Randy Turner @rturner229
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