"The Powers That Be Lobbying" Sheila Kaplan, in The wash-ington Monthly (Dec. 1988), 161 1 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Wash- ington, D.C. 20009.

On Capitol Hill, the "media lobby1'-representing TV broadcasters, cable TV, and newspaper and magazine publish- ers-is one of the most powerful. Do these guardians of the Fourth Estate spend their time crusading for First Amendment rights? "Occasionally," reports Kaplan, a freelance writer. "But the day-to-day work of a Washington m...