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>>255072 [con't]
And why is what she did at all unethical? Look at it like this: say a writer is hired by a magazine, say the Atlantic, to interview a politician, say John McCain and write a cover story on him, with instructions on what sort of tone, etc. to have. Say the writer performs that as instructed, and then with the notes (which they own copyright to) on the interview they did writes a hatchet piece on John McCain. I don't know anyone- except the politician's camp, of course- who would call foul. Do you see anything wrong with that?
And to the people saying the deception is wrong- it's wrong for politicians to try to control their portrayal in the media. If someone has to lie to get around that, all power to them. Fucking with children like she did with that series of hers is very arguably unethical, fucking with politicians- McCain, Obama, whoever- who manipulate people ten thousand times more than Greenberg manipulated McCain is not.
And why should Greenberg- or anyone- segregate her time between business and anything else? To paraphrase Orwell, "The opinion that business should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude." ("Business" is "art" in the original, FWIW.) I'd argue people in all their dealings- business and otherwise- have a moral responsibility to further the causes they support and hinder the ones they don't. "Causes" being overtly political or otherwise. Nevermind that- as other people have said- she's probably helping McCain more than hurting him. It's the principle of the case. (See my next reply, damn field limits.)
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