The logic is that we journalists will write about some interesting aspect of the conference, or possibly the whole thing, and the organizers will get press coverage they might not have gotten otherwise.

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At the sovereign level the same logic should apply to hopelessly bankrupt Greece: it needs a debt write-down.

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On the other hand, this kind of legal logic could make things difficult for anyone with a restraining order against them to ever write a memoir or blog about why.

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