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I think more pertinently, the entire article seems to be designed to portray the participants as negatively as possible without coming across as totally acerbic

I think more pertinently, the entire article seems to be designed to portray the participants as negatively as possible without coming across as totally acerbic. The whole subject and the people in it are treated as jokes, ending in a few dry factoids that destroy the article's established, cynical mood.

Jabbles 11y ago
"His friends explain that he mostly shuns the press after [being insulted, and we'll repeat the insult here]." Mean, or at least tactless.
- kragen 11y ago
  it seems like he made a good choice by shunning ashlee vance, the reporter who wrote this article.