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Friday was International Media Day for Gov. Schwarzenegger, who spent several hours sitting in his Los Angeles office relieving the backlog of requests by the foreign press to interview our Celebrenor. Ten minutes for TV reporters, 20 minutes for ink-stained wretches (in teams of three), no photogs except the governor's own. Write Joe Mathews in the Times:
The journalists said that while the interviews produced little hard news, the importance of the foreign media day was that Schwarzenegger held one at all. Such extensive series of interviews are commonplace for a president or, well, a movie star, but unheard of for a California governor. "Who wants to talk to Gray Davis?" said Matthias Hohensee, the Silicon Valley bureau chief for the weekly German business magazine Wirtschafts Woche..."I was a little disappointed — we would have liked more time," said Isabel Rodriguez, a reporter for the Chilean public TV network TVN. She had made a 12-hour flight Wednesday night — from the Chilean capital of Santiago to Lima, Peru, to Los Angeles — for her 10 minutes.
Also: An actual Arnold-sucked cough drop has gone on sale on Ebay, starting bid $500. (LAT)