Digby: Shorthand

The other day I was listening to Al Franken and Jonathan Alter chatter about a speech they'd heard President Clinton deliver at a dinner for the 20th anniversary of Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. (This is the speech in which he said "people didn't give Democrats a mandate.They gave us a chance.")

Franken made the interesting observation that in a room filled with journalists he was the only one taking notes --- which explains why there was so little coverage of the event and the speech.