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Spin City
1996 · TV series · 22 min episodes · 6 seasons
Created by Gary David Goldberg, Bill Lawrence
Workaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall Winston's key strategist and much-needed handler. Mike runs the city with the help of his oddball staff: an anxious and insecure press secretary; a sexist, boorish chief of staff; an impeccably groomed gay activist running minority affairs; a sharp and efficient, man-crazy accountant; and an idealistic young speechwriter. Like Mike, they are all professionally capable but personally challenged.
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That might be their way of thinking but sometimes things go in the other direction. The most critical voice against the city government where I lived in the early 2010s got hired by the mayor to become a "special advisor". That shut her up completely. Instead of scathing columns about government corruption, she put out the occasional press release for the mayor over his two terms. IIRC, there was a similar storyline in the tv show 'Spin City', which makes me think it is a somewhat common thing to happen.
In the 90s there was a great sitcom called Spin City with Michael J. Fox and subsequently Charlie Sheen. The best line about this topic I've ever heard was on that show, "Squirrels are just rats with good PR". I wonder how well that show holds up, doesn't seem like you can stream it anywhere other than Pluto which I don't have - maybe I'll get yet another streaming service...