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I wrote it very clumsily,
Medusa!
Perhaps I could be a journalist.
The thing is that journalists (at traditional/ reputable outlets) have a sub-editor going over their work, so you don't know what that piece looked like before it hit the public page (nor what your reply would have looked like after a sub's ministrations! 🙂). However what we've got here is the process made public: someone writes something and it's questioned.
(As an aside, I think the AIBU and Relationships boards have many excellent examples of getting to the bottom of a story, and don't think it's much of a stretch to think the quality of MNers' OPs and reading conprehension reflect this. Unfortunately, that's not to say there are no wild overreactions, bad-faith misunderstandings, etc.... but perhaps that's just the "training" turned to the bad side! 
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