The Decline and Fall of Entertainment Reporting
June 22, 2018
My journalistic hopes died a little the night I hugged RuPaul.
One evening in 2014, I found myself interviewing the namesake of RuPaul’s Drag Race for a Los Angeles Times video roundtable with Emmy hopefuls.
No slight against the hard-working stars of reality TV, but this sort of softball hosting duty was not one of the reasons I started in daily journalism 25 years earlier.
