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“I’m not sure I want to deal with the can of worms it will open, so I’ll tell you privately,” he wrote back.

... and what was told privately is now public...

Can somebody that journalisms tell me what just happened?

As reported in the article, the author later received permission to publish it.

Fair enough as I see now, let that be a lesson to me to simply not comment on an article with little interest to me but happens rope me in for a few sentences with a particularly dopey lede.

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