I'd like to know who writes their lines...
Now that would be interesting.....
I often wondered that. One theory is that they do not need to write the lines necessarily. The con men in the media newsrooms have been doing their slant for so long, they get the signal intuitively by just receiving the message. I watched this phenomenon with Bill Clinton and company. He would say something as president and be parroted.
I do wish that the editors and their assistants would be blinded by a spotlight of transparency. The bahstids fire their salvos with impunity. They are faceless and nameless. Acorrding to Alinsky, you cannot attack this effectively because CBS/ABC/NBC etc. are nebulous clouds. The "attack" has to be personal; that is, it has to have a name and a face.