Toles on DC

AV: Compare the environment for journalists in DC to the environment in Buffalo.

TT: In terms of local issues, it’s not much different–in fact it’s very similar. In terms of national issues, it’s very, very different. In some ways good and some ways not so good. When you’re doing national issues from a distance you get a perspective on them that sometimes you lose when you’re right here.

On the plus side of being here, it’s hard to describe the level of interest and the flow of information in this city—overtly and in casual conversations–to the degree that you have a highly different sense of what’s going on, who the players are, how they’re relating to each other, and an audience that is eagerly attuned to all of this inside baseball.