{"id":156,"date":"2008-02-22T13:14:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T18:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2008-02-22T13:14:34","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T18:14:34","slug":"federal-budget-media-lockup-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/federal-budget-media-lockup-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Budget media lockup &#8211; 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">In the interests of continuity and showing colleagues themselves on the web, I present here some nearly year-old images taken while sequestered in the media lockup in Ottawa during the budget hand-down in the House of Commons. \u00a0I posted some images from the 2006 hand-down here, and was asked about last year&#8217;s images by a colleague and present them, rather hastily, forthwith.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">I didn&#8217;t take nearly as many as the year before, <a href=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/?p=60\">2006<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">I go up to the 2008 hand-down this coming Monday, taking the train. \u00a0The paper sends us first class on the train, which works out to be cheaper than cattle class on the plane, and the train terminal is closer to Ottawa&#8217;s downtown than the airport anyway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">This is what the government in Canada thinks of you: You have to aspire to the greatness of yourself, instead of respecting who you are right now.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/Aspire.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">The lockup is a big room for 200-plus journalists. once you go in, you can&#8217;t come out until the embargo is lifted because you are presented with the full text and graphics of the government&#8217;s budget plan hours in advance of its tabling in the House of Commons to allow journalists to write their stories and make graphics about the data. \u00a0This allows a even keel for all journalists to file their stories and graphics at a single, common \u00a0moment &#8211; 4pm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget07-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">I could enlarge that type for you, if you like&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget07-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">Bad idea to interrupt your boss when he&#8217;s reading the house organ.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget07-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">IT tech Kathy working out the byzantine network model for PCs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget07-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">IT tech Susan waiting out the 6 hours of jaw-dropping boredom, but mentally tense for the 10 minutes of panic right at the end as the information embargo is lifted.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget07-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">Never, ever, interrupt a Flash artist at work on budget stuff while in the throes. \u00a0He might bite.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget07-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; margin: 0px\">Crib notes from a journalist to a graphics editor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/images\/budget07-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica; 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