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Jul 11

25m 44s

Make Fun Of Them, Pt. 2

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About this episode

In part two of this week's two-part Better Offline, Ed Zitron makes a plea to the tech media - to stop automatically accepting what the tech executives have to say, and to admit that these people sound really, really stupid, even if they use long words.

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