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Article: Newsroom confidential: the sins and secrets of D.C.'s media elite.(Book Review)
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- Columbia Journalism Review
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- January 1, 2005
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Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps, by Donald A. Ritchie. Oxford University Press. 368 pp., $30
The country's elite journalists saw Washington, D.C., as a hardship post before Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1933. As Reporting from Washington tells it, the federal city was a cultural backwater that could not even produce a decent local newspaper, where boring presidents seemingly did nothing, and did not even do that very well. It was an information wasteland when Congress was in recess. It was a place of exile, far in mind, if not in miles, from the country's news center, New York City, where any ambitious journalist wanted to ...