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Mark Penn and Wall Street Journal Now Equally Pathetic

We were disappointed yesterday when the cowardly Wall Street Journal failed to fire faux-trendspotting flack Mark Penn for using his newspaper column to troll for PR clients. But—hearteningly—both Penn and the paper appear increasingly pathetic! We do feel for the beleaguered actual reporters in the WSJ newsroom, who have to see their own reputations suffer by association while their paper’s leadership caves in to a celebrity pseudo-columnist’s right to disregard basic conflict-of-interest rules

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Mark Penn and Wall Street Journal Now Equally Pathetic

Wall Street Journal Unbelievably Keeping Mark Penn as Columnist

Yesterday we reported that Microtrend-spouting flack Mark Penn’s PR firm was using his Wall Street Journal column to drum up PR business. Penn is ethically compromised.

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Wall Street Journal Unbelievably Keeping Mark Penn as Columnist

Leak: How Mark Penn Converts His Wall Street Journal Column into P.R. Clients

Mark Penn , the strategist who dashed Hillary Clinton’s presidential hopes, is the Wall Street Journal ‘s “Microtrend”-spotting columnist.

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Leak: How Mark Penn Converts His Wall Street Journal Column into P.R. Clients

Leaked Email: Mark Penn’s Using His WSJ Column to Drum Up Business at His P.R. Firm

Mark Penn , the strategist who dashed Hillary Clinton’s presidential hopes, is the Wall Street Journal ‘s “Microtrend”-spotting columnist. He’s also CEO of PR giant Burson-Marsteller. Only a scumbag would abuse the former to drum up business for the latter

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Leaked Email: Mark Penn’s Using His WSJ Column to Drum Up Business at His P.R. Firm