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		cperciva on Aug 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion You don't actually think the CEOs said those things, do you? Google's PR people would have written to them saying "can we quote you as saying X?", and they would have written back saying either "sure, that sounds fine" or "no, use this quote instead: ...".

ericd on Aug 15, 2011 [–]

You might be right, though I would think that even a PR person would have tried to introduce some variability to make it sound believable.

I don't really know how these things typically work.

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