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contributors have reported that for-profit news company The
Atlantic has not been paying them [AP]   "We unfortunately can't
pay you for it," she wrote Thayer. "But we do reach 13 million
readers a month."  Thayer was appalled. He explained that he was
a professional journalist "not in the habit of giving my
services for free to for-profit media outlets so they can make
money by using my work and efforts by removing my ability to pay
my bills and feed my children".  Khazan apologised and explained
that the Atlantic was out of money. She told him the most they
paid for an original story was $100, but they did not have $100
at the moment. All they could offer Thayer was "exposure" to
benefit his "professional goals". Thayer's professional goal was
to pay his bills. Outraged, he pos