Speaking of Live Chats

The Washington Post's Petula Dvorak, whose fascination with the "diversity" of antiwar protestors included grannies and children while ignoring communists, anti-Semites and fans of every prominent tyrant from Hugo Chavez to Syria's Bashar al-Assad has a live chat at 3 p.m. Perhaps "novice protester" Patrice Cuddy will join in.

Update: The chat has been cancelled. WaPo/Technorati surfers should go here for brief PostWatch comment.

Comments

[Kathie Opon]

Any idea why this discussion was cancelled?

[Christopher Fotos]

Nope! See Update above, which I don't think was there when you left your comment. At first glance I did think Dvorak was out covering the Sheehan demo at the White House, but it's a very short file and written in a way that suggests Dvoark wasn't there.

It's possible Dvorak read questions before the chat--you can submit them hours in advance--and decided to beg off. Maybe she had no idea about the Patrice Cuddy situation, for example. But it could just as easily be that the day got away from her and she's got to report & file another story or two rather than chat.