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There’s another reason the L.A. Times’ AI-generated opinion ratings are bad (this one doesn’t involve the Klan)
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Jan. 25, 2011, 6 p.m.

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TNR editor on the mag’s “online cover stories” and the future of longform http://nie.mn/eJTRWt »

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How should a White House Quora work? http://nie.mn/hsEywu »

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