In this week's edition of The Ethicist, a college student who interned at a national magazine asked Randy Cohen for advice. Nick McCarvel wrote that "my editor asked me to post comments on one of the magazine's online blogs, being sure not to mention my working for the magazine but to write in a style that suggests I'm a reader. That felt dirty to me. Advice?"
Of course, Cohen was aghast that a magazine would make an intern work in sockpuppetry...
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