diff --git a/newspaper/cleaners.py b/newspaper/cleaners.py
index 47b6f1a8..48b32e05 100644
--- a/newspaper/cleaners.py
+++ b/newspaper/cleaners.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ def clean(self, doc_to_clean):
         """
         doc_to_clean = self.clean_body_classes(doc_to_clean)
         doc_to_clean = self.clean_article_tags(doc_to_clean)
-        doc_to_clean = self.clean_em_tags(doc_to_clean)
+        #doc_to_clean = self.clean_em_tags(doc_to_clean)
         doc_to_clean = self.remove_drop_caps(doc_to_clean)
         doc_to_clean = self.remove_scripts_styles(doc_to_clean)
         doc_to_clean = self.clean_bad_tags(doc_to_clean)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 91dc24fd..9ac95e1f 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='newspaper3k',
-    version='0.2.8',
+    version='0.2.8.2',
     description='Simplified python article discovery & extraction.',
     long_description=readme,
     author='Lucas Ou-Yang',