>>>>> We are witnessing a marriage of government and media previously unknown outside totalitarian nations. <<<<<
Wrong.
Completely not the case.
The press has always been corrupt. Always.
The “big lie” has been to convince contemporary America that they are “objective journalists,” the solons of truth and justice, and are incorruptible.
When the truth is that you can buy a journo with a free steak dinner and a pretty secretary.
Elizabeth Morris Graham, commonly known as Lally Weymouth is an American journalist and newspaper heiress, currently Senior Editor of Newsweek magazine.
Lally Graham Weymouth
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Lally Weymouth (born Elizabeth Morris Graham, July 3, 1943) is an American journalist who is the senior editor of Newsweek magazine.
She is an heir to the Washington Post media fortune, whose properties include Newsweek.
She is the only daughter of Katharine Graham and Philip Graham, both of whom were publishers of the Post.
From 1968 to 1969, Weymouth worked for Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.
She worked as a freelance journalist and contributing editor from 1977 to 1983 for such publications as New York magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Atlantic Monthly, and Parade. From 1983 to 1986 she was a contributing editor for the Los Angeles Times.
She was a contributing editor at Newsweek from 1998 to 2001. Since 2001, as senior editor at Newsweek, she regularly interviews celebrities for both Newsweek and the Post.
Thank God for the internet.