I will totally take doing a good thing that also benefits the company. Cynical good is better than no good.

“a cynical corporate power grab that’s as opportunistic—if not more so—as Uber dropping surge pricing in correlation with a taxi strike.”

I didn’t. They clearly said they would pay me for the content as soon as they had the draft.

I was one of the people who never got paid. A few years ago when I was starting out as a writer, I pitched something to them based around coping with depression while studying abroad. Nothing as salacious or controversial as the articles they’re known for, but rather something I naively thought would help other women…

“She is just counting the days until he dies...”

Semi-related but:

This has nothing to do with power or social/economic status. She wasn’t disrespectful at all...didn’t belittle the reporter, didn’t act like he was bad at his job, nothing. She was offended by and disagreed with the question he asked for an apology.