In recounting the colorful life of Jude Wanniski, Washington Post writer Adam Bernstein claims Wanniski “wrote a tongue-in-cheek guide to Washington reporters, rating them as if they were restaurant entrees.” First, that should be plural: his Media Guides came out for a number of years in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and they were serious evaluations of a journalist’s body of work. We read them, and sometimes debated the evaluations. (In 1990, we helped them construct a rating system for TV reporters.) While the books had a star system of ratings, it was hardly restaurant-like: “The ambience of Irving R. Levine is warm and inviting.”