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This community doesn't really seem to have a culture of making smooth plugs. I see pretty brazen plugs on a regular basis.


Yeah, but this is The Atlantic, a 156-year-old magazine with a reputation for literary and journalistic excellence. It's discomfiting to get to the end of an article in a publication of its caliber and be left wondering "what did I just read?"


"Yeah, but this is The Atlantic, a 156-year-old magazine with a reputation for literary and journalistic excellence".

The first thing I think of when I see The Atlantic is when they ran sponsored content as if it were a normal article, and the comments on that article were moderated by the marketing team so they were all positive. I think they really screwed up their brand that time.


"a 156-year-old magazine with a reputation for literary and journalistic excellence"

They've been coasting on that reputation without maintaining it for a decade or more.




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