Navel-Gazing Nerds

I just love it when newspapers navel-gaze and write front-page articles about how newspapers cover things.

 

And by love it I mean that while I may find it interesting, I would venture that most people don't really care about how the news media is coping, just that the newspaper comes to their stoop every morning--if they care that much. I would also venture that most people, myself included, don't really care for the awful alliteration of "The Buzz on the Bus: Pinched, Press Steps Off."

 

I did, however, like this graf:

For anyone familiar with "The Boys on the Bus," Timothy Crouse's rollicking account of the reporters from papers large and small who provided blanket coverage of the 1972 presidential campaign — or with later accounts that noted the prominence of girls on the bus, and the swapping of typewriters for laptops by nerds on the bus — the presence of relatively few print reporters on the candidates' buses and planes this year is striking.

 

I take pride in my nerdiness and like to see others do the same.