and that there is one journalist there for every three delegates slipped right by you?
No it didn't.
But those 5,000 journalist's aren't being paid by any country's taxpayers so they can sit there and play Tiddlywinks for all I care.
But those 15,000 'delegates' aren't going, staying and eating, etc. on their own dime. Somehow, someway(1), we and every taxpayer in the world are footing their bills.
(1) Direct funding or gubmint grants if not employed by some country's gubmint.