Kennedy's Revolutionary Cabinet Strategy and Media Complicity

• 1:09:49Kennedy's cabinet strategy: hire establishment insiders from Harvard and Yale, then incrementally pursue his own agenda while they're on the team.
• 1:10:25The establishment sponsors wouldn't allow Kennedy to break from their control, no matter what he'd planned.
• 1:10:57Tim defends Nixon as less paranoid than depicted, and argues the media narrative around him may be distorted.
• 1:11:24A major journalist told him his book is 'too raw' and 'too unsettling' for mainstream media to publish.
• 1:12:09Modern investigative journalism is underfunded and limited in ambition compared to what it used to be.
• 1:12:36Journalism refuses to examine why power is situated as it is or maintain institutional memory about how things came about.
• 1:13:00The Boston Globe got awards for Spotlight, but the institution was complicit in covering up the abuse story for decades.
• 1:13:18Once you find one major historical narrative is wrong, you start questioning whether everything you've been taught is false.
• 1:13:32His publisher suggested titling his book 'Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong.'

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