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slash campaign dash assistant. I first got interested in investigative journalism as a product of being a news junkie.

I thought journalism sounded like a fascinating line of work to be in and I was fortunate enough to get to intern and later work for a small wire service based in out of their DC bureau called Interpress Service. Part of my job there was to cover think tanks, which sounds incredibly boring and wonky and I guess aspects of it are.

And the thing that maybe I was bored at a lot of these events and I started to

look around and see that you know the buildings that these think tanks were in were really nice and they had a lot of expensive catered food and they seemed to be paying a lot of their employees, a lot of money, and they had the names of billionaires and

major Fortune 500 corporations on plaques and naming their conference centers after companies and individuals with a lot of resources

and I started to wonder how is what's the economics of all this how is this all put together

and I quickly learned that that's not a question you're really supposed to ask.

You're just sort of supposed to swim in that, you know, in that golden trough or whatever it is and

enjoy the perks and not ask too many questions about how all of this is put together and maybe even whose interests are being

representative if you can just describe describe what a think tank is for people don't quite

understand that concept because people may not have ever experienced this before

or really understood how this world works. So one interesting thing about think tanks that

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