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A great piece, for which you deserve thanks, and I give them. But I go back to two points.
One is that if anyone here has read Timothy Crouse's masterful The Boys on the Bus, about the 1972 presidential campaign, we are seeing the same behavior.
The other is a story I shared. At our local paper, an editor friend of mine got tipped to a great human interest story. He assigned a reporter, who begged off of it because the other reporters teased them about it. They weren't covering "real" news, like …
funny...I met Tim Krause once and liked him immediately because he'd retained a lot more of his bad childhood stutter than I had. unfortunately, he's remained (so far as I know) a one-book guy.
of course, so was Robert Caro until he started publishing the vast, still-unfinished LBJ epic...
has anyone noticed that pretty much everybody who gets zoomed on TV with a loaded bookshelf behind him or her (sorry, but old habits die hard) feels obligated to have a copy of "The Power Broker" in a very visible position?