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-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.”
It only costs $600 to plant a piece in the NYT?!?!
Re:The Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ Hustle
by taylortrusty on Thursday September 26, 2019 @11:12PM
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Forbes, not NYT
And 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/
Oh, whoops, the article describing the bribe was in the NYT. Sorry about that.
> Epstein is the ultimate example of charisma+network being a career choice
pretty sure a good bit of his 'brand' was in profits from his 'side business' here as well..
It's sort of too bad, because these people don't provide the type of value that we respect. But they do ultimately provide value by connecting people, and for that they are rewarded.