Control of public optics and messaging around a national tragedy (KSU memorial): staff (C.J./Claudia/Bruno/Sam) versus press/opposition (reporters, Rob Ritchie) over access, tone, and the risk of politicizing grief.
Control of public optics and messaging around a national tragedy (KSU memorial): staff (C.J./Claudia/Bruno/Sam) versus press/opposition (reporters, Rob Ritchie) over access, tone, and the risk of politicizing grief.
Events in This Arc
Aboard Air Force One, C.J. holds a brisk press briefing about the KSU pipe-bombing while the senior staff triage the political fallout. Bruno, Sam and C.J. spar over whether and …
In the Mural Room the staff triangulates three crises at once: a nervous new aide's radical past is vetted, C.J. warns that Governor Ritchie is angling to politicize the campus …
Charlie brings Debbie into the Oval so she can explain and apologize for her earlier arsenic-related protest. Debbie offers a rueful, over-explained apology; Bartlet cuts through the self-justification, praises her …