Finally I understand why journalists go so ga-ga over the inanities of campaigns: for the past few decades, they’ve believed that campaigns expose the true grit of a leader. Now, at least one of them regrets that assumption, born of the influential book What it Takes. Perhaps this heralds a new start for political journalists who actually want to cover leadership and not gamesmanship.
Anderkoo
Rearing a bilingual Chinese-English child in Washington, DC
It may take more than the opinion of one journalist to change the way campaigns are covered. But at least it is a start.