This chapter focuses on the White House "spinning" or "managing" the news when it is written. Honestly, I hate when anyone tampers with the content of the news. Even if they are trying to save their own reputation because a story that was written about them talks about how they've been embezzeling money or something, it's their own fault for doing what they did and if the journalists were smart enough to figure out what he was doing before anyone else, you better leave the news alone!
This is another reason I would not want to work in the White House. The news there would constantly be changed. Even editors that don't want their writers to write anything bad about the President probably change their writers stories on a daily basis. I could not handle that. I already have a hard time dealing with it when editors change something on one of my stories that I thought was a really good paragraph, sentence, example, etc. I always feel like it's my work and no one should tamper with it.
I don't understand how people in the White House can "manage" the news when journalists have the first amendment behind them. I would like to think that all Presidents would repsect that amendment that some of our founding fathers came up with, but sadly they don't. However, I honestly think that any President found tampering with the news that is written should be impeahced. Then the world would be a better place.
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