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Ron Elving on the Next Big Story

My former political editor, Ron Elving (now at NPR), has his usual long view of the political media’s love of the “Big Story“:

Anything that surprises editors, anything we seem to have missed in the past, gets featured treatment. It’s how we do penance for underplaying a story one day that seems to block out the sun the next.

As always, Ron’s observations are on the mark.