What job is better? You act as sage, psychiatrist, and weatherman all at once.

But the one thing you don't usually have to do is what you are actually paid to do: be a reporter.

Adam Nagourney is my favorite example of this phenomenon.

In his latest non-article, headlined "For Democrats, Many Verses, but No Chorus," Nagourney argues that "From Arizona to Pennsylvania, from Colorado to Connecticut, Democratic candidates for Congress are reading from a stack...