Articles in some feeds are missing numbers

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For example, in my Reason Hit & Run feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/reason/Hi…), I’m looking at a story (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reason…) with this paragraph in it:

“Last year, the cable, satellite and telecoms providers added just 46,000 video customers collectively, according to research firm SNL Kagan. That is tiny when compared to the 974,000 new households created last year. While it’s still 100.4 million homes, or 84.7 percent of all households, it’s down from the peak of 87.3 percent in early 2010.”

That first sentence is a puzzler until I go to the actual article where it says:

“Last year, the cable, satellite and telecoms providers added just 46,000 video customers collectively, according to research firm SNL Kagan. That is tiny when compared to the 974,000 new households created last year. While it’s still 100.4 million homes, or 84.7 percent of all households, it’s down from the peak of 87.3 percent in early 2010.”

Notice the 46,000 in there that didn’t show in the feed on Newsblur.

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I think you accidentally pasted in the same paragraph twice, as I’m either too sick or too dense to be able to see the difference. Regardless, hit the code block in the story title header. The one that shows story modifications (it’s next to the date on both www and dev). See if it shows up there.

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Looks like it’s a display problem – apparently, when I copy/pasted it, the number is in there. Here’s how it’s displayed in Chrome (where you can actually see the 46,000 missing in the first sentence).