OPINION BY THE DUKE OF SHOMOLU: Media, government, separation of power, ambition, freedom, patriotism and the people | TheCable
In Political Science 101, these are the first concepts you are thought. Power, its separation, freedom and its relations to the state and ultimately the people.
So in this case, the Washington Post was going through tough financial times and the board had decided to go public.Investors were not exactly jumping on the offer because the figures were not that exciting and again they were not comfortable because the publisher was female having been handed over the firm by her late husband. Pulling in sex relations.
The battle line was set. The shareholders and financial advisers were against publishing. The editorial crew felt very strongly that if they didn’t publish press freedom would be forever killed and Nixon would become a democratic dictator.I listened very intently to all the arguments. All sides had very strong points.
Then at some point, they all gathered in one room and it was now for the publisher to take a position.She was expected to take a business position to save the jobs of hundreds of employees and a family business that has stayed with generations. Remember she had friends in government. The Secretary of State Bob McNamara was a close family friend and one of her longest serving staff before he went into government.He was in the heat and he went in with emotional blackmail – ‘Kay, I served your husband. Will you watch me go?’
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