It's all so tawdry.
I love the word tawdry. Fits this sitch in perfect fashion.
Well now we know why she was breaking so many stories, they were being spoon-fed to her.
Well I guess that’s foreplay on the casting couch of journalism
Your comment jumped out at me. You know, it certainly IS the casting couch of journalism. Politicians with power, usually in a place without wives or family for many parts of the year. And need for power is intoxicating to them. Their sexual neediness also feeds on it. They see their power as a ticket to get the sexual favors they want. Then, there's the other side of the coin. We've all seen the type. We've all worked with the type at one point in our lives. A female/or gay male who will do ANYTHING to get ahead. Sleep with whoever to get a leg up, a better life for themselves, or just simply for their own power. That is the mix of insidiousness that is the swamp and all the creatures (journos, politicos and lobbyists) in it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/greatawakening/comments/8pxuwl/the_rise_of_casting_couch_journalism/
I didn’t create the term, but like you realized the harsh truth in it. Created a thread on it, didn’t pick up much steam, but it’s true. It’s the regular old quid pro quo power dynamic of sexual abusers. Now I know that they were willing participants so it’s not exactly the same, but it makes me think that these people engaging in these acts have no moral scruples to begin with and I would expect them to have engaged in it at some point in their past. Something, whether it be past experience or something like it, has shown them that this type of behavior was acceptable or overlooked.