A weekly newsletter on power and the press “I always said what I believe,” Chuck Todd told me of his time at NBC News, “but was I careful how I said it because I didn't want to f–k up a booking for ‘Today’?” Todd was speaking hypothetically about morning-show bookings, but also candidly about the inherent tensions journalists face inside large news organizations, where access and internal politics are part of the equation. “When you're at a network and you are collaborating with multiple shows, you are a cog — part of a larger ecosystem,” he said. If you want to "just sort of strut your stuff,” he added, “that can hurt everybody.” Todd was no mere cog... 
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