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How journalists sell out

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Carl Beijer
Mar 08, 2016
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Multiple journalists over the past several months have publicly denied shilling for Hillary Clinton. And they aren’t lying: one of the main design principles of a good sell-out is to arrange it in such a way that no one thinks they’re doing anything wrong.

Unfortunately, it’s pretty easy to put together the sort of “ethical” shilling operation that peopl…

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