… (and by “official Washington,” I mean not only government officials but the major media types who “cover” them), you could do a lot worse than to read NYU j-prof Jay Rosen’s “Church of the Savvy” series. The mindset he describes is patently ridiculous — you really don’t want to think that grownups with any influence at all over our lives can think this way — and yet, like the best scientific theories, it adequately explains observed phenomena and can be used to predict outcomes reliably.
(Full disclosure: Jay’s thinking significantly informed some of the work I did at the N&R back in the day, and he and I were on a ConvergeSouth panel together one year.)
