The list of prominent news people with close White House relations includes 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. CNNs 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.
Further, White House press secretary Jay Carneys wife is Claire Shipman, a veteran reporter for ABC. And NPRs White House correspondent, Ari Shapiro, is married to a lawyer, Michael Gottlieb, who joined the White House counsels office in April.
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Thanks ... this has been the pattern for decades ... and Americans never receive full disclosure. I have always thought it would be good to identify anyone on a talk show, anyone speaking to the public via radio or television with a statement over the radio every five minutes identifying that person's affiliation to relatives or themselves working or having work for an elected party, and a streaming banner on the television for purposes of same, in order that the public could understand what is being said by an individual to comprehend the biases brought forth. Giving this information to the public would help the public in a general understanding of what biases are being brought forth by the person speaking. Americans do need full disclosure (along the lines of who is speaking), and in the present and in the past full disclosure can only be attained by digging through the layers of deceit.