The dark side

Reader comment, hacks and flacks, and Mark Twain. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

There is a lot of news going on in the world right now: Covid-19 resurgence, for one, much as I wish it weren’t still so key. We’ll get to it all below.

But first, a reader signed up for the reader advisory group this week. And she joked that she’d been a journalist, but she’d now gone over to “the dark side”—marketing and public relations.

Now, for the…