The Powers That Be is a 1979 book by David Halberstam about the American media.
The book focuses on the following American media companies: CBS, 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."