May 27, 2003

As the curtain pulls back on America's newsrooms, Daniel Drezner wonders if we won't see some changes on the op-ed page:

It is common knowledge that op-eds and essays attributed to prominent people are usually not written by them, but rather by their minions/flunkies/research assistants (go to the chapter on intellectual life in David Brooks' inestimable BoBos in Paradise for the best description of this part of the knowledge economy). It will be interesting to see if more of these kinds of essays are now explicitly rather than implicitly co-authored.
Posted by Greg Ransom