Changing Campaign Coverage Starts With the Bus

In The Boys on the Bus, Timothy Crouse famously portrayed the traveling press corps for the 1972 presidential campaign as a pack, too often with interchangeable vantage points, sources, and, therefore, stories. That year, Rolling Stone’s Hunter S. Thompson utilized a new gadget to file remotely: the fax machine. Forty-three years after Nixon vs. McGovern, the bubble “on the bus” remains, though the bus itself has changed.