Original sentence: Claire, even though she intends to highlight the plight of the urban poor, is driven away from her favoured subject matter  by the promise of money and filming equipment.During the series, Dan, who dislikes the Nathan Barley's superficiality, is nonethless forced to compromise his morals to earn money on a continual basis.The series has two other main characters, Claire and Dan Ashcroft, who are siblings who find themselves facing tough ethical questions in the modern world
Edited sentence: Claire, even though her favoured subject matter is more socially relevant than the crap of Barley, is in many ways just as shallow - she wants to use the underprivileged and troubled not to make people think or change social policy, but to get attention and forward her career.The paradox of the tale is that whilst Dan dislikes everything about Nathan Barley, Dan achieves the least in his life and is incapable of staying true to any of his own morals making him the real 'idiot'.The series has two other main characters, Claire and Dan Ashcroft, who are siblings