My take is she worked on soft marketing projects, providing well written words that ended up being printed on collateral that even in the go go 90's didn't make it past my recycle bin.
She didn't seem to judge the evil corporations she worked for when she was billing them $100/ hour, on the way to her pedi/ mani.
As someone who spent 20 years in corporations with both marketing and communications departments, as well as myriad product marketing efforts, I can only suggest that those departments no longer exist... the same way massive trade shows, big booth presentations and printed ads and collateral have completely skinnied down in many many industries. All that content is now delivered electronically, written by the web developers who are often young 20 somethings who don't know jack about the product they are writing about, but do know how to get enticing graphics onto computer screens.
Video killed the Radio star... Her skillset supported the "radio stars"... If she didn't get the message that massive change was coming via digitalization, even without the bubbles and great recession, her "pedigree" college degree really didn't serve her well.
Now she walks past the big buildings where the corporations used to pay her "$100/ hour" invoices, and projects her lack of moving forward as the bad guys and herself the victim.
My bottom line on the article is she started it with the conclusion- evil republican corporations- and wrote the set up as a way to arrive there. Even as a Free lance writer, her rates are too high for me.