the line metaphor seems a bit obvious if you ask me

If you missed the kerfuffle from January over the New Yorker’s Ken Auletta paying a student journalist to stand in line for him to snag a spot in the Weinstein trial courtroom, just know that it basically entailed a lot of media types being like !!!!!!!!! this is extremely degrading and we will not have it!!!!!!!! and old school types being like it’s fi…