“What he knew was that most people did not have the stomach— or the cash— to actually take it very far against a media outlet. He felt protected by the moat explained in the old twentieth-century proverb: Never fight a battle against someone who buys ink by the barrel. It’s easier to just let the whole thing go.”
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