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See my comments further down: I was summarizing the way other people reacted to the book. That context was lost. I found the attitude depressing, too, then got it attributed to me …

Hah. Dude, this was an unbelievably labor intensive project. I have an editorial team to run, a 2-year-old, and another baby on the way. There is no fucking way I could have execut…

I mean: just to be clear, as the giver of the quote, the context for it is that I was summarizing the feeing of other people who saw the book. I was a super strong supporter of the…

I think you should read more pre-Internet journalism. You'd be shocked (SHOCKED) at what a NYT really looked like from 1970, let alone the zillions of regional papers, weeklies, ne…

Yeah, but it's the only cheap way. Video costs like 10x more than text to produce. (NB: I'm an editor at The Atlantic and I love video and I love text.)

I trust PG to make the right decision. As an Atlantic editor, I'd only note that this decision was not made by the people who produce our magazine's journalism.

Agree. It's pretty obvious where they are going with this. And from an advertiser's perspective, it's pretty sweet. Right now, the distinction they are trying to draw seems to be t…

Sheeeit. We've had animated gifs on TheAtlantic.com HOMEPAGE since like 2011.

They say that the tips actually go up, probably because the suggestion is 20%.

I think they can do that actually.

Story author here... I loved that one of the ladies that I talked to NAMECHECKED the Automat! Totally unprompted.