West Wing staff vs. the media-driven process story: senior advisors scramble to control a fast-moving narrative (credit, endorsements, candidacy rumors) that threatens to reframe the President's victory into a messy process debate — a struggle over who...
West Wing staff vs. the media-driven process story: senior advisors scramble to control a fast-moving narrative (credit, endorsements, candidacy rumors) that threatens to reframe the President's victory into a messy process debate — a struggle over who tells the story and how institutional norms are preserved.
Events in This Arc
Late in Toby's office Sam tries to make sense of an improbable late-night Democratic victory by invoking an offhand Aristotle riff and then admits he told Horton Wilde's widow he …
Sam frantically hunts the senior staff as live television transforms a private promise into a public crisis. TV anchors profile Sam and obsess over a Democrat's shocking Orange County win, …
Sam bursts into C.J.'s office and attempts to reframe the overnight rumor that he's running for the newly vacated seat as a well-meaning promise to a widow rather than personal …