YESTERDAY was Day One of the Great Media Scramble.
This is the open outbreak of hostilities between members of the Legislative Council and district boards, who clashed earlier in the week about media access.
District board members formally complained to Legco's Constitutional Development Panel that Legco members were getting all the publicity when news broke, with many of them vividly remembering the cold shoulders some received earlier in the year when a car overturned in Tsuen Wan.
Yesterday, the big winner was Legco member Fung Chi-wood, whose constituency includes the swimming pool closed for health reasons in Sha Tin and who appears today in our pages and everyone else's.
The swimming pool is also in the district board constituency of . . . er . . . well, that makes it one-nil for Legco.
Now it can be revealed why elected Legco members need bigger expense accounts - they need a fast car to get them to crashes, riots and other news events well before the teachers, social workers and other full-time employees who give up their time to sit on district boards.