Andrew Gray wrote:
So we're left with the editorial voice. They don't like us. Boo-hoo. Lots of people don't like us, lots of people think we're fundamentally going about our business in the wrong direction - with varying degrees of sense behind that - and the way to make this better isn't to start randomly getting rid of bits of content because of some kind of presumed subtext.
Yep! Most of us would have been happy to leave Durova's repairable error of judgement behind us. When we are criticized there may be some value to the criticism. A stubborn and persistent pseudo-defence probably draws more negative attention to the incident than it should ever have merited.
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