A Quote by Rebecca MacKinnon
One-way monologues through the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia don't have much street cred with China's Internet generation, to be honest.
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Def Jam just made deals with me. They wouldn't let me go because they didn't really have that much street cred. So they kept me around.
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