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by htfu 2338 days ago
Eh are we reading the same article series?

> Luanda Leaks An investigation into how Africa's richest woman, Isabel dos Santos, acquired her fortune

How Angola's state oil firm was left with just $309 in its account Published: 19 Jan 2020

Revealed: how Angolan ruler's daughter used her status to build $2bn empire Published: 19 Jan 2020

The diamond deal that rocked Angola Published: 19 Jan 2020

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I was reading this article and the quotes are from this one. Plenty of articles glamorize the lives and career of such people before the verdict is in. Probably because nobody will sue them for a praise.

You took the old HN rule of “don’t tell people have you even read the article” and took it a step further by asking me if I read a completely different article in the series.

The articles are linked together though, and are on the same website.
Just like every wikipedia page. I don’t see your point that because some other article says something, my point about this article is invalid.

Let’s agree that some episodes in a series are worse than others and the one linked above is that one, if you say all the others don’t have this issue, and I happened to be exactly the one linked in this post.

To be fair the quote consists of headlines appearing alongside every article in the series, and as such ought to be taken as part of the package - you don't need to navigate anywhere to see them.

Does every single piece need to hammer in how awful someone is when the whole makes entirely clear they indeed are?