https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/12/07/the-media-mogul-protection-racket/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 11:11:12 -0400<![CDATA[One day, historians researching America’s transition to aristocracy will study Hughes’s life story. The North Carolina native went from Andover to Harvard, where he ended up as Mark Zuckerberg’s roommate and thus lucked into the winning numbers in the meritocracy Powerball. Total winnings: some $600 million (the amount fluctuates with Facebook’s stock price). Hughes did not have programming or business skills—it is unclear what skills he has at all—so Zuckerberg made him Facebook’s first press agent. He publicized the revolutionary social network, which does not strike one as particularly hard to do, and parlayed his Facebook experience into a job on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. He was riding a wave he had caught inadvertently by sleeping in the same dorm room as Zuckerberg. Where is the special, two-segment, snark-filled panel on “Melissa Harris-Perry” devoted to Hughes, whiteness, and the nature of membership in the American elite?]]>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:40:55 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/12/07/the-media-mogul-protection-racket-n98080