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Re:AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down by MJR on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @10:24PM (#2330428)
This is important: We never told TechCrunch to change the post in any way.

Then to quote the letter: I think their issue is just with some of the text. Let me know if you're able to take another look at it and make any edits.

That's a very PC way of saying change the post. They sounded like they expected compliance. They're expectations were wrong.

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Re:AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down by synnik on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @11:23PM (#2330609)
And immediately following that quote: "so if you have good reasons not to change anything that’s fine"

It sounds like they expected nothing and this was a CYA email, knowing TechCrunch would not comply, but allowing them to say, "We tried."

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Re:AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down by kenjackson on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @11:54PM (#2330697)
Yeah, this is common. Otherwise this moviefone rep gets grief for not even talking to the author. Now the moviefone rep can say, I talked to her and she's not making the edits.
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