Or you could look at it as using Amazon to finance Seamus’s reporting on Amazon. Kinda like members of the resistance who accept government welfare money.
I’m not defending folks who deal with Amazon. I boycott the company. I’d rather get on my bike to go buy something with cash.
But it’s pretty standard ethical practice in journalism to separate the advertising & editorial departments. Except for women’s beauty magazines, where the editorial content often is advertising.
