The S.H.A.M.E (Shame Hacks who Abuse Media Ethics) project digs into Malcolm Gladwell’s history of belonging to corporate funded groups and shilling for the tobacco industry, Enron etc.
As this article will demonstrate, Gladwell has shilled for Big Tobacco, Pharma and defended Enron-style financial fraud, all while earning hundreds of thousands of dollars as a corporate speaker, sometimes from the same companies and industries that he covers as a journalist
More here.
What I found interesting (once I got over the shock, — I somehow had the impression that Gladwell was left of centre) is how corporations reward him via the multi-hundred thousand dollar ‘speaking engagement’ mechanism.
It is very scary how long these ‘protect the corporations by subverting the media’ ops have been running. Decades of patient work to shift the country rightwards.