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Incidentally, a Forbes writer was exposed a few months ago for publishing a puff piece from Epstein's PR team under his own name: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/
by danso 7y ago
Incidentally, a Forbes writer was exposed a few months ago for publishing a puff piece from Epstein's PR team under his own name:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/business/media/jeffrey-epstein-media.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/business/media/jeffrey-ep...
> The article on the Forbes website was attributed to Drew Hendricks, a contributing writer. As The Times revealed in an article last week, he was not the author of the piece. Instead, it was delivered to him by a public relations firm, and he said he was paid $600 to attach his byline and post it at Forbes.com.
> Mr. Hendricks said he had not been aware of Mr. Epstein’s history. “All I knew was, this is a guy doing a science thing,” he said. “If I had known otherwise, I wouldn’t have done it.”
- joncrane 7y agoIt only costs $600 to plant a piece in the NYT?!?!
- taylortrusty 7y agoForbes, not NYT
- jzl 7y agoAnd a reminder that the vast majority of articles on "Forbes" are written by an army of contributors, who until recently weren't even guaranteed to be paid. Forbes online is basically the Huffington Post, but riding the coattails of its supposedly prestigious namesake magazine. https://guestpost.com/blog/2018/08/how-much-paid-forbes/ https://guestpost.com/blog/2018/08/how-much-paid-forbes/
- joncrane 7y agoOh, whoops, the article describing the bribe was in the NYT. Sorry about that.