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Biden's not a dog's dinner: Champ, Major (and Snowflake) know a President when they sniff one (Trump thread #126)

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TheNorthWestPawsage · 22/02/2021 09:02

Thread title inspired by minou123 Smile

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TheNorthWestPawsage · 07/04/2021 22:56

Mike Pence - remember him?

Pence signs a seven-figure book deal, but Trump and other administration alums face a tough market in publishing.
www.cnn.com/2021/04/07/politics/pence-book-deal-trump-administration/index.html

Two people in the publishing industry tell CNN the former vice president's deal is worth seven figures, somewhere in the range of $3 million to $4 million.

News of it comes as the publishing industry grapples with questions of how to handle high-profile would-be authors from the Trump administration.

The concern, according to highly placed sources in publishing, is whether the writers could be counted on to tell the truth -- and whether a publisher might provoke a damaging backlash in the culture of cancellation.

"I would try to keep an open mind," said one publishing source. "That doesn't mean I would sign them."

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PerkingFaintly · 07/04/2021 23:32

The news industry has had to grapple for a while with the problem of people using it for free broadcasting of misinformation, misdirection and terrorist acts. Always a quandary of whether to cover the story, broadcast a President's blatant lies, show the terrorists' attack.

Now this problem has trickled down to the book industry.

It should be an easy call not to publish intentional lies... but doubtless, if they don't get as large a megaphone as they demand, the Trumpies will treat us to a deafening whining that "Conservative voices are being silenced."

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