If you watched Barack Obama deliver his acceptance speech on Thursday night, you might have noticed some folks in the front who were clapping and cheering.

Or maybe you didn’t notice. After all, it was a terrific speech, and everyone was cheering!

Well, surprise! As it turns out, those folks in the front were journalists there to cover the Democratic National Convention for their respective media outlets!

As The Hill’s Andy Barr points out:

Two members of the foreign press exchanged opportunities to take each other’s pictue [sic] while wearing an Obama hat and waving a flag.

Several others nearby screamed “woo” during some of Obama’s biggest applause lines.

Woo!!! Woo-hoooooo!!!!

You can see in comments at the link above that several readers ask Barr for the offenders’ names—or at least, their media outlets. In case you’re one of those interested in who the woo-wooers were, one was Allison Payne from WGN-Channel 9 (second item). I’m guessing plenty more are plainly visible in the tape of the speech.

Anyway, this has touched off a debate on both sides about the media’s participation at events like these. Some of them are apparently OK with wooing for Obama, but as a matter of practice, they won’t stand for the National Anthem.

What do you make of that?