There’s no accounting for taste.
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How could anyone resist!
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And now it comes out that RFK Jr. (whose campaign has flat-out denied this story) bragged to so many people about the nude photos that Nuzzi sent him that the gossip made its way back to her boss, prompting the investigation that led to her firing.
Thank goodness he’s never going to be allowed anywhere near the nation’s nuclear secrets.
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can someone explain to me the janet malcolm reference?
As someone who, empirically, pretty much only manages to reach ‘acquaintances’ because Corporate has a fixed seating plan; I’m forever amazed by the ongoing parade of reports of visibly, aggressively, proudly, terrible people who manage to somehow be both married and cheating. It’s just wild. The merely mediocre I can understand, abstractly, for who else is in broader company than they are more or less by definition; but the awful are puzzling, since I’d think that even other awful people would be shooting for mediocre or better given the option.
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Compatibility. They’re awful in the same ways & connect over it.
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Probably a reference to this, especially the first sentence.
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
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There is a Doonesbury cartoon (which I can’t find right now) from the period where Rick Redfern is forced to work for People magazine.
The gist of it is that when politicians and journalists meet they sometimes become each others groupies.
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That’s the meaning of “access journalism”, isn’t it? Feeling special because they let you see inside, on condition that you only write what they want you to write.
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Yes, but it’s also the basis of a well-paid gig with a brand-name media outlet. In that type of job it’s ok to be chummy or intimate with your subject in the course of spreading their talking points as long as you don’t get caught.
The mistake Nuzzi made was assuming that Brainworms Failson was a stable and cautious person who would be discreet. She’ll re-surface on a right-wing channel after a while, and might make more money than before. But it won’t be the same.
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That’s much closer to ghostwriting than actual journalism, isn’t it.
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Well he’s certainly proven himself to be a reliable narrator again and again so I see no reason to doubt his latest spin on the story now… 
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