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by ykat7 1879 days ago
Could you or the parent commenter define "submarine" in this context? I searched and didn't find anything relevant.
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It's a reference to a pg essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

The part introducing the term is at the beginning:

"Why do the media keep running stories saying suits are back? Because PR firms tell them to. One of the most surprising things I discovered during my brief business career was the existence of the PR industry, lurking like a huge, quiet submarine beneath the news. Of the stories you read in traditional media that aren't about politics, crimes, or disasters, more than half probably come from PR firms."

It means an advertisement disguised as a news article.