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Gizmodo / Thomas Germain / Mar 4
It’s an issue of sourcing. “‘The New York Times isn’t going to write an article about maintenance on highways in the middle-of-nowhere Texas or Colorado,’ said Ben M., a roads editor known as BMACS001 on Wikipedia, who asked to withhold their full name. ‘Sometimes a primary source is all you have.'”
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