ARE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AS INTERESTING AS JOURNALISTS?

ARE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AS INTERESTING AS JOURNALISTS? Another excuse that journalists find for not let letting candidates address voters is that candidates speaking in their own words are not as interesting as journalists are. The Chief Leader Writer of the London Times (“leaders” in Britain are like editorials) opined on the controversy I described yesterday: “Well, political pieces by elected officials or candidates can often be very boring – safe, unrevealing and tediously partisan. In general I required such pieces to jump over a pretty high importance barrier before I ran them.”