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In reply to the discussion: I will tell you why Maddow's "Hubris" aired NOW and not back then. And you won't like it. [View all]jollyreaper2112
(1,941 posts)It's the same as came out on Jon Stewart recently, talking with an insider from the government side of regulating finance. You don't play the game, you're cast out. And out is a very cold, unfriendly place to be.
Business, government, media, they're all in cahoots. You play the game, don't make waves, get along and get ahead. Calm, steady promotion and advancement up the ladder. Esepcially between government and industry, there's that old revolving door.
If a reporter inside the beltway burns people, and by burn I mean tells too much truth, he's not invited to parties anymore, he loses access, he becomes worthless to his employer.
In smaller organizations, this sort of buddy culture lasts until a fuckup of such magnitude occurs that it's blasted to pieces, new people move in to assume control and are terrified about a repeat blasting. This is what should have happened with the exposure of the war lies, 2008 financial crisis, etc, but consequences never happened.
It's just like Senator Wide Stance. A democrat gets caught in a sex scandal, he resigns. A republican is caught, he'll try to brazen it out. He doesn't actually have to leave unless he's impeached. And that's how Larry Craig finished out his term.