How true to life is the hit Netflix show House of Cards? Well, one of the show’s stars apparently learned from a senior government official that reporters do, in fact, sleep with their sources. Yes, in a Q&A with Capitol File magazine, Robin Wright (who plays Claire Underwood) on the show, said that when she was researching her role, she learned some surprising things about what goes on in D.C.
She says a “senior persion” in the Obama administration told her that reporters sleep with their sources, among other things. And what she took away from these revelations was this: “D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is. It’s more sleazy than Hollywood… how much infidelity goes on.”
Sleeping with sources has been an issue explored on House of Cards ever since… ooh, wait, no spoilers. Better go watch for yourself, then. Everyone else is.
My wife and I have been watching the series and it's been eye opening.
******************* “The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.” ¯ Ludwig von Mises
Quote: truthkeeper wrote in post #3How do you mean, TM? Is it worth watching? I have so little time I pretty much only watch Fox News and HGTV.
I've been hearing a lot about this show lately.
I recommend it. The first few episodes especially are insightful about the way a power person thinks and operates. As the series progresses, what started out as naughty fun degenerates into the reaping/consequences for their sin and it becomes less interesting. But I'm still watching it.
******************* “The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.” ¯ Ludwig von Mises