Monday, June 28, 2010 | 7:45 p.m.
There is a game in Nevada called “Where’s Sharron Angle?” that the press is tired of playing.
Ms. Angle, a Nevada Senate candidate and Tea Party darling, has steadfastly refused to talk to reporters here, leading to some unusually aggressive behavior by local television stations. In a segment fit for TMZ, one intrepid reporter chased her on foot outside a restaurant this month, repeatedly asking why she had once said that “if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies.” She ignored the questioner and tried to outpace him, in a video clip replayed across the state.
In her silence, Ms. Angle has exposed a fault line in political journalism.
See the full New York Times story here.
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