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Lena Dunham tunnelling in to Hannah's plight

Concerning "Girls"' Hannah's new job, Daniel D'Addario wrote this:  Hannah has taken a gig at GQ, where she’s explicitly told not to answer the phone giving the name of the outlet; she’s writing sponsored content for Neiman Marcus, those glossy pages in the magazine that look sort of like — well, Ray explains it best in the episode’s first moments. “It looks like a real article,” he says, “so they trick you into reading it, but then you find out it’s a paid advertisement, which is both morally and creatively bankrupt.”   It seems much the same as  Adam’s anti-Gawker rant earlier in the season  — a man hectoring a naif for not sharing his point of view about the idiocy of the media world. And Ray is sort of right: Hannah would never have been hired to be a staff writer at GQ. All the perks of her job — from paycheck to snack room — stand in for respect in precisely the manner she craves.   But Ray’s sort of wrong, too, about just how bankrupt the enterprise...