It’s not the stuff of sober public affairs journalism. The quick blurt about the streaking event left me amused, wondering Who does that anymore?, before I went back to heating some soup.ĭeGregory followed up on her curiosity - and that of millions of others - and found out. For me, the game had become background noise by then. By the time one of the two buddies took to the field, costumed in a woman’s pink thong onesie (which, he told DeGregory’s in an interview, gave him a wedgie), there was little drama left in a one-sided game between the victorious Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the struggling Kansas City Chiefs. But she didn’t just wonder: She found out.ĭeGregory did that again this week when she hunted down the scamps who plotted a dramatic streak that briefly interrupted the late minutes of Super Bowl LV. “You wonder: Who’s the THE guy?” she wrote. As I remember the story, DeGregory was at a rodeo with her sons, watching the pre-show pageantry, when the banners galloped by. From her 2009 Pulitzer Prize for “The Girl in The Window” to what she calls a “quickie” feature about “Stormy Daniels: The President’s Porn Star,” DeGregory has built a career out of seeing, and then landing, the stories other journalists dream about, or that catch them by surprise: Damn, why didn’t I think of that? One of my all-time favorites was her profile of “the THE guy:” A rodeo cowboy who carried the flag that said “THE” in the lineup that declared GOD. Lane DeGregory finds and follows stories that give nonfiction storytelling loft and range. Following up on curiosity - wondering about everything, and then caring to find out - is what makes journalism soar. 7, 2021.ĪP Photo / Steve Luciano Curiosity grounds all good journalism. A streaker runs across the field during the second half of the NFL Super Bowl 55 football game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Kansas City Chiefs, Sunday, Feb.
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