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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."

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.