Romenesko

National Review
Catherine Seipp says a PR person once offered her $1,000 to write an article slamming a left-wing organization that a corporate client would enjoy seeing slammed. "This was the first (and, I hope, last) time an offer to pay-for-play had come my way," she says. "I could never consider this arrangement for even a second, and was shocked at the notion that anyone might. ...My quarrel isn’t with the spin shops that pay for op-ed space, but the journalists who accept it."