BBC Corespondent Robert Pigott (pictured) is keeping a daily dairy of his experience at Lambeth. He laments the lack of access the news media has to the conference and says that's why items like Cardinal Dias' statement get so much press.
"The media aren't allowed into many of the events taking place under the auspices of the Lambeth Conference, the Anglican Communion's once-a-decade meeting taking place in Canterbury.
At daily news conferences mild-mannered archbishops have encountered hostility from correspondents irritated at being banned even from the early morning service of Holy Communion. They have scarcely been mollified by the explanation that the exclusion is for "security reasons"."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7509125.stm
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Nor should reporters be mollified by that lame excuse. The fact is, as demonstrated both in 1998 and especially this year, the organizers of the conference are absolutely tone-deaf to effective media relations.
Excluding reporters from every session is idiotic and paranoid. This decision deserves every bit of derision it attracts.
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