The Powers That Be is a 1979 book by David Halberstam about the American media.[1] [2] It focuses on CBS, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Time.
The Globe and Mail wrote: "The trouble is that the Halberstam of Vietnam, and of The Best and the Brightest, has become David Halberstam: institution, and like others who take themselves too seriously, his prose suffers."[3]