“Precise what metamorphosis do the Dotty Lynches of contemporary Washington undergo on the short trip from Senator Hart’s headquarters to CBS? And just how did the versatile Wally Chalmers manage to shed his identity as a member of Ted Kennedy’s staff and purify his soul for service at CBS News, then smoothly resume his role as a Democratic apparatchik, fit to become executive director of the Democratic National Committee? Or do such people in fact simply remain, and behave as, liberal Democrats while working for CBS?”
Source: The Coming Battle for the Media: Curbing the Power of the Media Elite (1988).
Keywords: media,political-strategy,governance
