First "Blogger" Gets Press Credential With Blessing of Capitol Correspondents Association of California

I have sent the following reply:

What a nice surprise as I am getting the page up for the morning. I look forward to working with all to develop a better standard for media credentialing in this changing world and view this as a two way street.

I've actually had a press pass for the last legislative session and more recently have been able to attend press conferences and floor sessions, and to continue experiencing first hand the going on under the Capitol Dome with a media credential issued day to day.

The last time I was in Sacramento, I received a call on my cell phone from fellow blogger/reporter Robert Salladay of the LA Times saying I "had been sighted" in the Assembly Chambers and asking if I was using my credential from last year. I advised him that I was working on a "day pass" like "an itinerant worker."

Perhaps now my sightings will not be news and I can get back to writing news and opinion, after having followed what Scoop Nisker used to say in the 70's on KSAN radio: "If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own."

I put "blogger" in quotes because with the changing times the distinctions between journalism, columnists, and the new media on the internet are becoming blurred.

"Infamous Scribblers" is a new book by Eric Burns on "The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism." The circle is now unbroken.