Of Course, The Press No Longer Plays This Role

From a 1997 review of Seymour Hersh's The Dark Side of Camelot by Jacob Weisberg:

Hersh is much better on the way in which the press protected Kennedy. Trusted reporters were at his beck and call, ready to advise on policy and bury indiscretions. In a 1960 letter Hersh found in the Kennedy Library, Ben Bradlee--then of Newsweek and later the editor of the Washington Post--advises Kennedy not to pick the unmannered rube LBJ as his running mate. Bradlee also helped out in 1962 when Kennedy needed to put rumors about his secret marriage to rest. In cases where a reporter wouldn't play ball, Bobby Kennedy could easily pick up the phone and get editors to kill a story. Of course, the press no longer plays this role on behalf of the Kennedys or any other politicians. But something of the old dynamic may persist in the hostile reaction to Sy Hersh's book.

Italics mine. Funny.

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[ティファニー]

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[Sparticus]

Just as you say. After all, the press did such a good job of exposing an obscure Illinois politician named something like "Obama" and publicizing his leftist, Anti-American past that the people roundly rejected him long before he became a national figure.