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Do you ever, like, when you were.
Edited, when you had an editor, when you worked at a real publication, did you ever put stuff in a story that you knew was bad just so your editor would cut that and not the thing that you actually wanted to stay in?
No.
And thank God I never worked somewhere where I had to think like that.
Cause trying to play the nine dimensional chess of, like, how do I get something past my editor would have driven me out of this business.
I call this my green m and m strategy, where I, like, I put something that's, like, horrible in the story and I just, like, leave it there.
And then there's something like three paragraphs below that that I know they're gonna wanna cut, but that I really want them to leave in, Kevin.
So I just be like.
Admittedly, some have asked whether 911 actually happens, and the editor says, you know what?
I know how we can save one paragraph worth of space.
I'm Kevin Rus.
I'm a tech columnist at the New York Times.
I'm Casey Newton from platformer, and you're.
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