I don’t think any of them get any real truth to tell. Kegsbreath goes and tells the blonde spokeshead of the minute to tell the press that the operation was a complete success and we won the war in the first minute. It’s not like she has the actual military reports in front of her she’s lying from.
Part of what made Karo-Lyin’ good at her job was that she actually was in the briefings and meetings and shit, which meant that she did have real truth to tell. Of course, she lied anyway, but the fact that her calculated lies might point back to what she was concealing is what gave her weight with the journalists: A game of hide-and-seek with truth, but at least it gave them a chance to find it.
As the article points out, there’s no clear successor that would have that same truth to even play with in the first place. That would give whatever successor they install much less sway.
I don’t think any of them get any real truth to tell. Kegsbreath goes and tells the blonde spokeshead of the minute to tell the press that the operation was a complete success and we won the war in the first minute. It’s not like she has the actual military reports in front of her she’s lying from.
Part of what made Karo-Lyin’ good at her job was that she actually was in the briefings and meetings and shit, which meant that she did have real truth to tell. Of course, she lied anyway, but the fact that her calculated lies might point back to what she was concealing is what gave her weight with the journalists: A game of hide-and-seek with truth, but at least it gave them a chance to find it.
As the article points out, there’s no clear successor that would have that same truth to even play with in the first place. That would give whatever successor they install much less sway.