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John Heilemann is the managing editor of Bloomberg Politics and the co-author of Game Change and Double Down.\n\n"If you're a writer, and you're not an asshole, you want the maximum number of people to read your stuff. There's nothing wrong with that. There's no great glory in cultivating some niche audience. I do this work because I believe in what I'm doing. I'm not trying to compromise my principles or my standards to get a larger audience. But once I've written the thing of which I feel confident and proud, which I feel is ethically and journalistically sound, I then want the maximum number of people to read it."\n\nThanks to TinyLetter for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow Notes:\n@jheil\n[9:15] "Congress's Watch Dog: The General Accounting Office" (Washington Monthly \u2022\xa0Nov 1989)\n[23:15] "Can the BBC Be Saved?" (Wired \u2022 Mar 1994)\n[24:00] Heilemann's New Yorker archive\n[33:00] "The Networker" (New Yorker \u2022 July 1997) (sub req'd)\n[34:30] The Valley\n[35:00] The Reckoning (David Halberstam \u2022 1986)\n[37:00] "The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth" (Wired \u2022 Nov 2000)\n[41:30] The Pride Before the Fall (2001)\n[44:00] "The Power Grid" archive\n[44:45] "The Choir Boy" (New York \u2022 May 2005)\n[48:00] What It Takes (Richard Ben Cramer \u2022 1992)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices