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Sock Puppets. Tech Crunch: Completely Worthless or Only Mostly Worthless?

Seriously, though. Every source with a grain of salt.[1,2]

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[1] http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html: "If anyone is dishonest, it's...reporters. The main reason PR firms exist is that reporters are lazy. Or, to put it more nicely, overworked. Really they ought to be out there digging up stories for themselves. But it's so tempting to sit in their offices and let PR firms bring the stories to them."

[2] That's not a knock on this submission. If anything, just an application what we learned inside (ie,its principles). Or, as the author un-ironically notes, "Even the honest reviews are mostly written by people who are stupid...". That sounds fair and objective, right?



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