“ Even when a modern vice president is so irrelevant he can’t get his calls returned by the president’s valet, press can be relied upon to produce a hagiographic masterpiece about him, as Bob Woodward and David S. Broder did in January 1992 with a seven-part, 40,000-word, six-months-in-the-making Washington Post series about Vice President Dan Quayle. The series served as the foundation for their 1992 book, The Man Who Would Be President: Dan Quayle. Amazon lists 113 copies priced as low as 1 cent apiece, if you’re interested. They make excellent fire-starter.
— Jack Shafer, in “The New York Times Magazine delivers a journalistic cliché in its Joe Biden feature” for Slate Magazine.
I laughed. The NYT Magazine piece on Biden seems interesting at first glance.
I laughed. The NYT Magazine piece on Biden seems interesting at first glance.
