What's new about the New New Journalism?

Robert S. Boynton has written a book on The New New Journalism: Conversations with America’s Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft. From a review: 'Boynton has a standard list of questions, which varies only slightly. “Do you believe journalism can lead to truth?” is one favorite, and the answers are revealing. Ron Rosenbaum, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Yale University, whose books include Explaining Hitler, disparages journalism schools for insisting on third-person narration, with its illusion of omniscience. “Putting your cards on the table as the narrator--your doubts, your hesitations, your conflicting thoughts and impressions--is often more honest than third-person writing,” he says, adding: “I love the way eighteenth-century novelists buttonhole the reader, grabbing his attention by badgering, charming, or insulting him.”' I guess in a piece of New New Journalism on cooking, the writer would have himself peeled and fried before writing about it.