![]() Sure, we did our jobs, covering our local congressional delegation and the specialized beats and issues that were important to our readers. You got the X-Ray stare as they looked right through you or over your shoulder for someone with a better answer.Ĭraig and I dealt with this in a fairly predictable and juvenile fashion: Through mockery. In that city, then as always, the acceptably polite greeting at social events was not “How do you do?” but “What do you do?” And if what you did wasn’t important or impressive enough in the inquistor’s eyes, the conversation was over before it could begin. That meant we were essentially nobodies in the pecking order of Washington politics and journalism. But in those days, both Craig and I were just a couple more faces in the countless ranks of “regional newspaper reporters” in the nation’s capital. One of my colleagues in the bureau at that time was Craig Crawford, who is now a successful blogger and cable TV news pundit on the Washington scene. ![]() In 1991, I moved from the Orlando Sentinel newsroom to its Washington DC bureau to be a national correspondent. Be careful what you mock in your youth, because what goes around comes around and the target of your mockery will often get the last laugh. A long time ago, my target was something called The Mask, and now it is finally getting its revenge. ![]()
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