That sounds familiar. I know somebody who worked on our student paper that swallowed their beliefs to go and work for the Mail because it was the only paper still hiring. Not believing in it doesn't absolve you from being complicit in it, though.
I actually have more respect for someone who is a genuine right-wing nutjob and tells it like it is than someone who abandons their principles and sells out. As Marina (of 'and The Diamonds') so eloquently put it "better to be hated / than loved, loved, loved for what you're not".