"We develop a core group from within our media analyst list of those that we can count on to carry our water. They become the key go to guys for the networks and it begins to weed out the less reliably friendly analysts by the networks themselves."
For some reason your post reminds me of the time one of my close
friends called me a "Christless, heathen, bastard". I took 2/3 of
that as a compliment.