The book also has a confessional tone. They call it journalism, but some days it felt like stenography. As a particularly outspoken editorial page chief who now takes over the news operation, Raines leaves quite a paper trail. After taking over the page at the start of Bill Clinton's presidency, Raines ratcheted up the rhetoric. But he was tough on the Clinton White House as well.
Raines can sound self-righteous when it comes to the news business.
His advice poses an equally insidious danger, and that is that reporters and editors become public policy missionaries with a puritanical contempt for horse-race politics . . . If journalists follow his prescription, their readers truly will have reason to blame the press for undermining democracy. News Jobs AP Shopping Archives Entertain.