“The media will always kiss the hand that slaps them.”—Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged*
* Caveat. I am not a Rand-y. Rand was a militant atheist, and while she had plenty of potential as a novelist, with Atlas Shrugged she jumped the shark, and the Fountainhead had plenty of sucky passages, too. I did like We, the Living, which was one of her first novels, and did draw on her personal experiences. But generally, she sucks.
I don’t like her entire books, they bore me... but some passages within are pure and absolute genius.