EXCLUSIVE! How a campaign's pitch left me with the unspoken hint of a Quid Pro Quo
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I was shoving my MacBook Air into my messenger bag on a Friday evening ten days before the 2020 Iowa caucuses, when I received a text from Erin McPike, a press aide to Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire presidential candidate who was attempting a late dash at the Democratic nomination. McPike, an affable professional acquaintance of mine for nearly a decade who had toggled between stints in journalism and public relations (and is now doing communications for Meta), was offering something guaranteed to stop any worthy reporter in their tracks -- even if that reporter had an evening of cocktails and curated Spotify playlists on his brain --
EXCLUSIVE! How a campaign's pitch left me with the unspoken hint of a Quid Pro Quo
EXCLUSIVE! How a campaign's pitch left me…
EXCLUSIVE! How a campaign's pitch left me with the unspoken hint of a Quid Pro Quo
I was shoving my MacBook Air into my messenger bag on a Friday evening ten days before the 2020 Iowa caucuses, when I received a text from Erin McPike, a press aide to Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire presidential candidate who was attempting a late dash at the Democratic nomination. McPike, an affable professional acquaintance of mine for nearly a decade who had toggled between stints in journalism and public relations (and is now doing communications for Meta), was offering something guaranteed to stop any worthy reporter in their tracks -- even if that reporter had an evening of cocktails and curated Spotify playlists on his brain --