The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.
Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.

