Piffany

Piffany

A Piffany About Clout Chasing And Complicity

Sean L. McCarthy
Mar 13, 2021
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I knew the exact moment my time in tabloid journalism had expired.

You’d get partial credit if you guessed my very first day on staff at the New York Daily News. That’s when I learned that the guy I replaced already had gotten canned from whatever new magazine or media project he’d just left with another Daily News-er to help launch went belly-up instead…

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