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by perl4ever 2379 days ago
It might or might not have been insider trading.

However, I think a journalist is seriously delinquent if they don't acknowledge that insiders normally schedule their stock trades ahead of time to insulate from insider trading accusations. A reader needs to know whether this was the case or not in order to be appropriately outraged.
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thephyber 2379 days ago
It was. I posted the SEC PR filing in reply to another comment on this article.

> I think a journalist is seriously delinquent if they don't acknowledge ...

I'm not sure I agree. If you consider how many topics journalists write about and how much necessary context that they would have to background-boilerplate, a 2 sentence update could easily become the length and readability of a ToS contract.

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perl4ever 2379 days ago
If there is one single thing that you could put in a sentence or two, but it makes your article irrelevant, then the maximum word count is not the reason it was left out.

This isn't like, one article with a unique context. There have been lots of similar ones and will continue to be.

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