Not P but DFW: pitched to Rolling Stone

[Corbeau Castrum]

Yeah, I think it means that someone (a journalist or editor?) told RS editors that that week was boring in terms of political events, and so any political journalism would have to be about the hard labor of political campaigning rather than specific primary elections.


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On Monday, 02/09/26 at 17:07 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
The following excerpt is from David Foster Wallace's *Up, Simba*:

7 to 13 February is pitched to Rolling Stone as a real “down week” on the
GOP Trail, an interval almost breathtaking in its political unsexiness.
Last week was the NH shocker; next week is the mad dash to SC’s 19 Feb.
primary, which the Twelve Monkeys all believe could now make or break both
McCain and the Shrub. This week is the trenches: flesh-pressing,
fund-raising, traveling, poll-taking, strategizing, grinding out
eight-event days in Michigan and Georgia and New York and SC.

Does the first sentence mean that someone pitched this idea to the
magazine? It may seem obvious, but somehow I read it completely wrong the
first time.
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