While working for '' Time '' , Stengel also wrote for '' The New Yorker '' , '' The New Republic '' , '' Spy '' , and the '' New York Times '' and appeared on television as a commentator , even contributing to '' Indecision ' 92 '' , the 1992 Comedy Central coverage of the Democratic National Convention in New York . Using his experiences as a journalist as a basis , in 1998 Stengel taught a course at Princeton on " Politics and the Press " . He was one of the original on-air contributors for MSNBC
Democratic National Convention
1992 Democratic National Convention
Richard Stengel