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njharman on Oct 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Steve Yegge on Steve Yegge's Amazon Google post

Reinforces value of mainstream news. [if unclear, mainstream's value is < 0]

ryan-allen on Oct 13, 2011 [–]

Ah, I think the significance is that if he didn't retract the essay it would not have hit the news outlets.

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