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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ros Taylor

What we WERE thinking

Hundreds of readers have expressed varying degrees of fury, incomprehension and tentative support for G2's Clark County campaign, and you'll no doubt be eager to read the features editor's own explanation of why Operation Clark County was launched - and why "somewhere along the line, the good-humoured spirit of the enterprise got lost in translation".

"Blimey," writes Ian Katz. "We set out to get people talking and thinking about the impact of the US election on citizens of other countries, and that is what we have done. For the Guardian to have experienced such a backlash to an editorial project is extraordinary, but the number of complaints [is] thoroughly outdone by the number of people who engaged positively with the project."

Do read the article - and do continue to blog: despite the abuse, we're still reading.

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