Original sentence: , refuse to publish, stories that do not agree with their leftist political beliefs.After writng the novel, De Borchgrave served several years as senior editor of The Washington Times and of UPI.The book vividly portrays the cold war view that Western news organizations are strongly influenced by Soviet Communists to "spike", i
Edited sentence: De Borchgrave has since become a senior editor of The Washington Times and of UPI.On another level, the book argues that all news is propaganda and that conservatives should purchase news media outlets and slant them rightward by spiking stories that they do not agree with -- because if they do not do so, liberal reporters and editors will do just the opposite).The book is ostensibly a Cold War-era spy novel, but it may also be a polemic.The plot of the novel is that Soviet Communists infiltrate Western news organizations as editors and refuse to publish, or "spike", stories that do not agree with their Communist political beliefs