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How we are being brainwashed
The incestuous relationships between the white house and the press shows its roots.
- ABC News President Ben Sherwood, who is the brother of Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, a top national-security adviser to President Obama.
- His counterpart at CBS, news division president David Rhodes, is the brother of Benjamin Rhodes, a key foreign-policy specialist.
- CNN’s deputy Washington bureau chief, Virginia Moseley, is married to Tom Nides, who until earlier this year was deputy secretary of state under Hillary Rodham Clinton.
- White House press secretary Jay Carney’s wife is Claire Shipman, a veteran reporter for ABC.
- NPR’s White House correspondent, Ari Shapiro, is married to a lawyer, Michael Gottlieb, who joined the White House counsel’s office in April.
- The Post’s Justice Department reporter, Sari Horwitz, is married to William B. Schultz, the general counsel of the Department of Human Services.
- [VP] Biden’s current communications director, Shailagh Murray (a former Postcongressional reporter), is married to Neil King, one of the Wall Street Journal’s top political reporters.
- Bill Daley White House Chief of Staff went to CBS NEWS
- David Axelrod White House Chief Strategist to NBC
- Robert Gibbs White House Press Secretary to NBC
- Rick Stengel Editor of TIME Magazine to the State Department
- Jay Carney Washington Bureau Chief TIME Magazine to the White House
- Glen Johnson Boston Globe Online politics Editor to State Department
- Douglas Franz Washington Post National Security Editor to State Department
