I have no desire to be one.
Why? because I don't take crap from just about anyone. My work for my station has opened so many doors to learning and exchanging ideas, marketing, stories that are of great importance to the viewers wherein I can translate into something useful and informative for the show, as well as contacts and amazing friends from other TV stations that I would never imagine rubbing elboiws with had I not been assigned to cover the marketing and events beat.
However, I noticed a trending of bloggers also being invited in events, and It's appaling how some group of bloggers turn into hordes of hyenas for freebies, when, as I've read some, simply turn to copy and pasting the stories from event holders. It's insane.
I've seen countless events wherein they also participate, and I don't honestly care as long as they don't get in my way. Sometimes, I just feel as a media practitioner that it's an insult for me to be able to read most drivel written, or in some cases, simply Copy and Pasted fright off the given press kits.
Disgusting right.