What’s Unusual About Covering Politics as Usual

The September 28, 2001 issue of the New York Times marked the end of overwhelming consensus in post-September 11 journalism. Of course, even now, months later, some of the patriotic fervor and the sense of national unity that burst forth after September 11 survives in journalism as in American society generally. But it endures as one element of national politics and national political reporting, not as the whole thing.