These were lobbyistsโmany of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.
Ron SuskindThe fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.
Ron SuskindBy virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.
Ron SuskindYou try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.
Ron Suskind