NYTimes has an article on how the Trump administration turned away from the coronavirus, deciding to push responsibility to the states and localities. In part it reads to me as a hit piece on Dr. Birx, possibly with Kushner as one of the sources (he's barely mentioned, while she gets portrayed as unduly optimistic and trying to please her bosses).
But that's not really what struck me. It's the question: how do the logistics of five people writing one article work? Does one person do the draft and the others add comments and paragraphs? Is it more collaborative or individualistic?
And how did the Times (and other papers) get here? Back when I started reading the paper (usually the Sunday version) in the 1950's there were very few bylines on articles. Over the years they started to appear on a greater proportion of the articles until now there's hardly an article without at least one named author.
I think that's representative of a more general evolution in society: diminishing the importance and voice of institutions and raising the importance and voice of individuals.
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