<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>willurd</author><text>Please redirect your shock toward the US government.&lt;p&gt;And by the way, at the time of writing 27 of the top 30 articles don&amp;#x27;t mention Snowden in the comments, so...</text><parent_chain><item><author>untog</author><text>Can we have just one thread in HN that doesn&amp;#x27;t mention Snowden?</text></item><item><author>miles</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Few people were aware that a sale was in the works for the paper, whose reporters have broken such stories as the Pentagon Papers, the Watergate scandals and disclosures about the National Security Administration’s surveillance program in May.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Claiming credit for the NSA story seems disingenuous at best, especially given their antagonism towards Snowden:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/06/how-washington-post-lost-prism-exclusive/66048/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlanticwire.com&amp;#x2F;national&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;how-washingt...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130702/11474423694/washington-post-stop-us-before-we-do-any-more-real-journalism-like-that-cute-little-guardian-paper.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techdirt.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;20130702&amp;#x2F;11474423694&amp;#x2F;washin...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/10/washington-post-walter-pincus-correction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;commentisfree&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;jul&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;washing...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: While acknowledging the WaPo&amp;#x27;s significant contributions in the early 70s, it seems like they lost their way somewhere along the line:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Washington Post Kills Account of Its Failures in Iraq Reporting and Runs a Defense Instead&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://gawker.com/5992158/washington-post-kills-account-of-its-failures-in-iraq-reporting-and-runs-a-defense-instead&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gawker.com&amp;#x2F;5992158&amp;#x2F;washington-post-kills-account-of-i...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/washington-post-to-be-sold-to-jeff-bezos/2013/08/05/ca537c9e-fe0c-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>anologwintermut</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d settle for a top comment that doesn&amp;#x27;t mention Snowden.</text><parent_chain><item><author>untog</author><text>Can we have just one thread in HN that doesn&amp;#x27;t mention Snowden?</text></item><item><author>miles</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Few people were aware that a sale was in the works for the paper, whose reporters have broken such stories as the Pentagon Papers, the Watergate scandals and disclosures about the National Security Administration’s surveillance program in May.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Claiming credit for the NSA story seems disingenuous at best, especially given their antagonism towards Snowden:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/06/how-washington-post-lost-prism-exclusive/66048/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theatlanticwire.com&amp;#x2F;national&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;how-washingt...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130702/11474423694/washington-post-stop-us-before-we-do-any-more-real-journalism-like-that-cute-little-guardian-paper.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techdirt.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;20130702&amp;#x2F;11474423694&amp;#x2F;washin...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/10/washington-post-walter-pincus-correction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theguardian.com&amp;#x2F;commentisfree&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;jul&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;washing...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;EDIT: While acknowledging the WaPo&amp;#x27;s significant contributions in the early 70s, it seems like they lost their way somewhere along the line:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Washington Post Kills Account of Its Failures in Iraq Reporting and Runs a Defense Instead&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://gawker.com/5992158/washington-post-kills-account-of-its-failures-in-iraq-reporting-and-runs-a-defense-instead&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gawker.com&amp;#x2F;5992158&amp;#x2F;washington-post-kills-account-of-i...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/washington-post-to-be-sold-to-jeff-bezos/2013/08/05/ca537c9e-fe0c-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html</url></story>