Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

I like how there are periodic outcries about publicists feeding content to reporters or articles being somehow "inaccurately reported" and yet you can regularly see product-pushing sponcon and outright fiction in various newspapers of record

The fact is, we are all conditioned to lie selectively, to promote things we are given for free, to believe what we read, and to take umbrage at others when they're called out for doing so because it impacts our own human, all too human, grifts

I mean, I can straight up tell you some of the publicists laying out articles on a platter for the lazy trend reporters of the NYT and elsewhere. But who cares? We all gotta get ours til we get got

"Journalism" has always been a seedy, low rent profession -- somewhere between scamming and outright begging for money -- and to believe that "Pentagon papers" and "Watergate" changed that is like believing Jules Dassin or the Coens made noir something other than puerile trash