'Moneyball,' 'Ides of March' Contain Inside Information
International Herald Tribune Sunday 9th October, 2011
IN 1988 The New York Review of Books dispatched Joan Didion to report on the presidential election, an assignment that resulted in a classic essay on the modern way of campaigning titled "Insider Baseball. " Over the years that phrase - usually in a snappier, syntactically dubious variation, without the R - has become both a cliche and a cultural principle. "Inside baseball" could be the name of a multimedia genre, a mode of storytelling focused, above all, on that mysterious thing called process.
"When we talk about the process," Ms Didion noted, "we are talking, increasingly, not about 'the democratic process' or the general mechanism affording the citizens of a state a voice in its affairs, but the reverse: a mechanism seen as so specialized that access to it is correctly limited to its own professionals.
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