Philadelphia magazine editor Larry Platt, who had been weighing a challenge to U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach, has decided journalism is better than politics.
What helped him make that decision? Attending last week's Pennyslvania Society weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
"After being a prospective candidate for two days at PA Society last weekend," he said in an email sent to his staff, "I was so sick of my own voice, so tired of hearing me talk about me, that I realized this life change wasn't for me. When you're a journalist, I realized, you're interested in hearing and conveying other peoples' stories. When you're obsessed with your own story, you create your own little echo chamber inside your head. It's not fun."
Fun, after all, is what it's all about.
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