If you checkout HuffingtonPost today and read Jay Rosen on Karl Rove and the "savviness of the main stream media", you will be rewarded.

The  Josh Green piece written just prior to the 2004 presidential election buttresses the contention by Rosen that Rove's successes depend not only on his brilliant use of quantitative marketing techniques applied to political campaigning but more import on a complicit press that had no idea how well it had been hornswoggled by Rove.

Rove conned an all too willing press by appealing to their capacity for being "with it", savvy and "knowing".  What I like about  Rosen's piece on HuffPost is he names names.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jay-rosen/karl-rove-and-the-cult-of_b_60411.html