The NRA’s highly anticipated press conference on Friday laid
down an unusual, outdated request for news reporters planning to cover the
event.
The association, which is expected to address the Sandy Hook school massacre, said they are limiting press coverage to
those reporters who can prove their status through a request for attendance
written on company letterhead. Please fax your request, the media was told.
Numerous reporters immediately had a field day with the
demand, according to media critic Jim Romanesko.

More
proof than you need to buy a weapon or ammo online, one said.

The
best replies:
also please type request on a Corona
(typewriter); and please show press fedora too; they’re probably in bed with
the resurgent and powerful “fax lobby;” apparently the NRA has never heard of
Photoshop or email; credentials for the 1985 annual mtg? and better than “shoot
us an email.”