With this Conference, the media relations of the Church of England have finally caught up with corporate practice. We have rival press officers briefing furiously against each other, and a huge media staff devoted to ensuring that bishops are hard to find and their spouses impossible to talk to. This is all as may be, and for the same reason. The Church of England has concluded, like the Labour Party before it, that the media has got more out of it than it was getting out of the media. In this respect the Lambeth Conference is getting more Vatican.
Gold is for secure.
Pink is for danger. Gold badges indicate writers who are on the official communications team. They are here to write stories for the full-color, glossy Lambeth Daily and for Anglican Communion News Service. Pink badges are nearly red, and they indicate increasing danger. Writers wearing gold badges include some talented, hard-working journalists who also care about truth.