because she's not just a news reporter - she's also a researcher and educator. So many of the segments on her show not only report the main events that all the other MSM news shows report, but also fill you in and educate you on the hidden "back stories" leading up to these events. This segment is a fine example of this laudable work of hers, which should be a standard part of the high school civics curriculum in this post Citizens United era. In other words, "Dorothy - this is not Kansas anymore!" The whole political world has changed, and the way that politicians do business and get elected has changed. We can't afford to take shelter in the old myths about how politics used to be, or should be, without acknowledging the grim, sordid realities of what actually is happening - the WHOLE story, both front and back.

in changing them.