Why did someone pay $US560,000 for a picture of my column?
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Why did someone pay $US560,000 for a picture of my column?

I’ve had some strange experiences in my career as a journalist. But nothing even remotely prepared me for the experience of watching total strangers competing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for a picture of my words.

  • byKevin Roose

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