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Lessons from the Max Blumenthal/Ben Norton Contretemps
The semi-professional dust-up between Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton, former colleagues at The Grayzone,1 offers more than just another tale of betrayal and conflict in the realm of small businesses. It exposes a grim yet commonplace reality, especially in the already fraught arena of extremely online news and politics start-ups.2 The details of their public falling out, albeit scintillating, provide a larger lesson about the perils of mixing business with trust.
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