Another feel good piece from Forbes today

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Originally Posted by Bram99

I am turning into a total conspiracy theorist. When I see these two articles about card collecting a day apart from the same publications one Positive and the other one negative it just makes me wonder. Why? To report the news but cancel out the effect?

They are from "contributors" not employees. There have been numerous scandals concerning contributing writers and internet media. Basically payola where they were selling mentions and links, if not entire articles to the companies they were writing about. Forbes was hit pretty hard by this a few years ago and I am assuming there are still some chickens that haven't come home to roost there yet.

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