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I agree. I read the entire thing looking for data and found none. He repeatedly produced quotes from certain internal pages, but there is no way for any reader

I agree. I read the entire thing looking for data and found none. He repeatedly produced quotes from certain internal pages, but there is no way for any reader to verify them, nor does that make it data.

zerotolerance 11y ago
Quoting the official text is data. Summarizing internal data sources is data. In contrast to the interpretive dance that were the quotes from third-parties, this was dripping with data.
- cscurmudgeon 11y ago
  Non-anonymous ex-employees are not exactly third parties.
- serge2k 11y ago
  Both are primary sources of data for an article.
  - zerotolerance 11y ago
    This author is a primary source.
  - deleted 11y ago
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