[dredmorbius]

Almost certainly: an attempt to de-fang a discussion that would almost certainly be highly political, and in the hope that discussion of that element might at least tend to be amongst those who'd read the article rather than responded to the headline.

Information delivery rates matter.

[sctb]

A moderator changed it to “Time Inc. Sells Itself to Meredith Corp, owner of Family Circle and AllRecipes” for that reason (after there were plenty of such tangential comments as evidence), but we've changed it back.