Vladimir Putin: Unpaid Journalist
Everyone is talking about Vladimir Putin’s op-ed in The New York Times, so we’re glad that the paper has disclosed how it went down. According to Margaret Sullivan, the Times’ public editor, it wasn’t exactly the most exciting collection of events:
The Times editorial department was approached Wednesday by an American public relations firm that represents Mr. Putin, offering the piece. Also on Wednesday, Mr. Putin’s spokesman, in the course of an interview about Syria, mentioned to The Times’s Moscow bureau chief Steven Lee Myers that an article was in the works.
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