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\\\"Americans Hate Tingle: A well-known example regarding Americans, their disgust at The Beautiful Game, appears in articles such as this. Given that despite Cracked being American and with an excessively US-centric POV, most readers are foreigners, the comments usually go down into a Flame War.\\\"

\\\"with an excessively US-centric POV\\\": In the article writing guidelines, they specifically say not to do write \\\'us in the US\\\' or something like that anymore.

\\\"Dan Browned: Often times their articles, even if they\\\'re cited, end up being either gross misrepresentations of the facts or even flat-out lies. A particularly egregious example is in their article \\\"If Oscar Speeches Told the Truth\\\" where they claim the screenplay to Good Will Hunting wasn\\\'t really written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, and the citation they link to directly contradicts their entire point.\\\"

And thank you moron who pulled that stunt. There is now a stated policy that editors check every. single. source. before they accept an article. Which means that it takes articles longer to be accepted. Which means it\\\'s longer before the purveyors get paid for them. If you cherry pick or deliberately misquote a source, you will feel it. And that\\\'s before \\\'\\\'they tell Jack what you did\\\'\\\'.
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\\\"Americans Hate Tingle: A well-known example regarding Americans, their disgust at The Beautiful Game, appears in articles such as this. Given that despite Cracked being American and with an excessively US-centric POV, most readers are foreigners, the comments usually go down into a Flame War.\\\"

\\\"with an excessively US-centric POV\\\": In the article writing guidelines, they specifically say not to do write \\\'us in the US\\\' or something like that anymore.

\\\"Dan Browned: Often times their articles, even if they\\\'re cited, end up being either gross misrepresentations of the facts or even flat-out lies. A particularly egregious example is in their article \\\"If Oscar Speeches Told the Truth\\\" where they claim the screenplay to Good Will Hunting wasn\\\'t really written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, and the citation they link to directly contradicts their entire point.\\\"

And thank you moron who pulled that stunt. There is now a stated policy that editors must check every. single. source. before they can accept an article. Which means that it takes articles longer to be accepted. Which means it\\\'s longer before the purveyors get paid for them. If you cherry pick or deliberately misquote a source, you will feel it. And that\\\'s before \\\'\\\'they tell Jack what you did\\\'\\\'.
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