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I'm a personal friend of Nicole and it didn't strike me as odd. She doesn't have a dishonest bone in her body, really. I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't even

• frostmatthew 12y ago
  > I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't even register that people might find her prior friendship to be a conflict of interest. If that were the case she wouldn't have mentioned it at all.
• philsnow 12y ago
  The trouble with the order the article was presented in, is that it buries the lede (the lede here being that the author has a very significant personal bias, which can color the reader's perspective of the rest of the article). The author chose (subconsciously or not, strategically or not) to defer mention of that important fact to the end, by which point many readers will have already given up reading. It is a fact that people pay more attention to the beginning of an article and that a significant proportion of people fall off the end and don't finish.
  • philwelch 12y ago
    It only "buries the lede" for those who are desperate enough to find some reason to discredit it, which is going to be the natural impulse of most torch-and-pitchfork wielding people in this internet mob.