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Right, but IMO that's meaningfully different from "the government and the press are in bed", which implies a wholesale conspiracy. The fact that individuals wi
by untog 8y ago
Right, but IMO that's meaningfully different from "the government and the press are in bed", which implies a wholesale conspiracy.
The fact that individuals within government can find favourable coverage from one of dozens (hundreds?) of independent media outlets, each with its own perspective and bias, isn't really all that surprising or scandalous.
- ceejayoz 8y agoTrump asking the NYT to squash a corruption story about one of his Cabinet secretaries would likely fall flat, for sure. Obama's CIA asking Fox to suppress a story about the impeding attack on Bin Laden would probably have been honored, regardless of Fox's generally negative opinions on Obama. Stuff with the "national security" label, or stuff that requires fairly specialized access to sources, is where the close relationship between press and subject can cause issues like the article here is highlighting.