The opening of the closing paragraph in what was represented not as transcribing a press release but as an Actual News Story In The Paper Of Record:
Still, the threat is large enough that Barnes & Noble executives are working hard to determine a strategy that focuses on core strengths …
Probably you already know my feeling that we ought to sue for surrender and try to get in return one shred of dignity -- a declaration that the space between the g and the h be declared superfluous -- but apart from just that, how the fuck do you cash a paycheck as a Reporter™, and type a CONCLUSION involving the phrase " … working hard to determine a strategy that focuses on core strengths … ," AND sleep at night?
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