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Information priesthoods have always come crashing down, sooner or later, and the Internet has only accelerated that trend. If the NAR thinks they can hold back the tide on this, then they are <\/i>setting themselves up to be made obsolete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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