It's hard out there for a New Republic writer. Ryan Lizza worked for months on a profile of Mark Warner, and was just about to turn it when Warner announced he wasn't running for president. Then, Michelle Cottle wrote a long profile of Evan Bayh in this week's issue of the same magazine- and right after it went to press, Bayh too bowed out of the race. Lizza retooled his into a "why Warner didn't run" postmortum, whereas Cottle's ran as is.
Expect TNR to be really, really cautious about assigning an Obama profile...
Posted by Stephen Silver at December 18, 2006 03:26 PM