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by jeremy_arnold 1837 days ago
lol at "paid flack". Brb gonna update my LinkedIn.

Anyway, I awarded a correction bounty here. I'd said in the same piece "if your only criteria for publishing are some measure of verification and some measure of newsworthiness", but used poor phrasing in saying "sole criteria" prior. I don't think it was likely to mislead the fair reader. But a mistake is a mistake, and I'm happy to own it.
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md_ 1837 days ago
You wrote before, "TLDR is I'm a copywriter turned comms consultant. I work mostly with tech companies."

"lol at" = not actually denying it, so not technically lying, right? ;)

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jeremy_arnold 1837 days ago
Flack is a pejorative, and really speaks to spokespeople, which I'm not.

I write all the time about what my day job is, and I regularly disclose it whenever there is even an vague intersection with a story I'm writing. It's not a secret!

Lots of people drift between comms and public writing. When there's a perception of conflict, they disclose. As do I. Pretty routine.

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