Reporting the Campaign

A look backward reveals that, with one or two glaring exceptions, those reporter chaps aren’t such a difficult lot after all.

Way back when New York’s mayoral race suddenly became three-cornered, novelist John O’Hara gave a thought to the press and how it would treat the Buckley candidacy. His worry: “Buckley will provide newsworthy items. Whether the newspapers and the radio-TV people will give him coverage is another matter.”