Sleeping With The Enemy: Media, Politicos, Once Adversaries, Now One Big Incestuous Circle

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Sleeping With The Enemy: Media, Politicos, Once Adversaries, Now One Big Incestuous Circle

 

by Joe Concha | 9:21 pm, May 10th, 2013

 

A long time ago in an America far, far away (some call it “the seventies”), there were only six channels to choose from on your television dial.

 

So in terms of actually getting on the air at one of these stations, the competition was obviously fierce due to the limited options presented to aspiring anchors and reporters looking to break in. It basically went like this: Either someone had to die or embarrass themselves on the level of going streaking through the quad in order for a position to open up in the national news media. Those who couldn’t climb the ladder to a coveted network position instead had to settle for working in small markets, thereby earning the kind of salaries that didn’t put them in the top 1 percent (or the top 80 percent for that matter).

 

Needless to say, it was a tough time to work in media.

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Sleeping With The Enemy: Media, Politicos, Once Adversaries, Now One Big Incestuous Circle

 

by Joe Concha

 

Once Adversaries, Now One Big Incestuous Circle Joe, do yourself a favor...read some history. When was this time when they were adversaries? Particularly when a Democrat is in the White House? Joe, you're trying to make it sound like David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs, Dana Perino, Karl Rove, Mike Huckabee, George Stephanopoulos, David Gergin, Jay Carney, Tony Snow, are the exception that proves the rule. Just this very short and incomplete list shows us its not. At a minimum Joe you should take a peek at...

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Robert Novak

It has always been incestuous because A. politically speaking Washington is a very small one industry town and B. Both sides need each other.