I have once again bitten the journalistic hand that feeds us all.  I may have 
also drooled on it, but that's just part of the biting process.  Anyway, I am 
sorry.

I didn't mean to say that anyone honestly thinking that 20-25% commission was a 
product of a chemical or any other type of affect.  

Anyway, I was called on it, and with some redaction, follows the full text:

[redacted]

I find the idea of "what does the community think on..." brand of journalism 
folksy... you know, jug and banjo music, bare toes, and "y'all have a right 
purty mouth" kind of folksy, but I bear no ill will.  I am not a Hoboken Penny 
Saver reader, but I am sure that (if it exists) it has a right to exist and to 
its own niche and readers.

As to Moscow Times, no personal animus, but I think that the quality of your 
"feature" stories ranges somewhere between pay-for-play and well intentioned, 
but laughable.  The stories on how "we are in crisis, but __name your 
industry/company___ is doing jus' fine", border on pornography.  Articles by 
experts, with the ad from the expert's company next to it, set a pretty low bar.

Do a fun experiment.  Take a month's worth of Moscow Times and see how much of 
your "coverage" can be directly linked to an ad in that paper within 72 hours.  
I had my students do it, it's good for a laugh.  Particularly the legal expert 
and HR expert advertorials.  Yet, oddly "paid article" is absent from those 
pages.

The harm, if any, in this coverage is that it also creates somewhat ridiculous 
expectations by outsiders.

I don't claim that you don't have a right to it.  At the same time, if one gets 
their information so dramatically and so publicly wrong... isn't it a bit silly 
to THEN claim animus against you?  Is it that I "hate your freedoms"?

It does create problems when clients start asking about the Moscow (English, 
not published on weekends, with blue masthead) "Paper of Record" articles about 
stuff like 20-25% commissions. 

What of our brother France?  Scorn and faint regard.  [that's Shakespeare, he 
didn't hate y'all either.]
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