[mey]

I tried, except, everywhere I looked, they promoted Op-ed pieces with equal billing and authority as traditional investigative reporting. Washington Post, NY times seemed liked the "best" based on track record for investigative reporting on politics and international coverage (with a US focus) but I cancelled both after a year. Open to suggestions...

Edit: Also NYTimes cancelation process is AOL levels of hostile. The Economists, less so.

[secabeen]

> I tried, except, everywhere I looked, they promoted Op-ed pieces with equal billing and authority as traditional investigative reporting.

I share your dislike of this trend. In the physical paper days, the opinion pieces were kept within a specific section of the paper (usually end of section A, and column one on the front page), and it made a difference. Now you see people taking an opinion piece as speaking with the voice of the paper all the time.

It would make a real difference if the background of the page was different for opinion, or something, but I have no idea how to get there from here.

_The Economist_ has pretty good international coverage, but it's a weekly magazine, so a different focus, and they are not shy about their promotion of free trade and classical liberalism in the opinion sections, so you have to be ready for that.

[koheripbal]

I find the Wall Street Journal (online) put Opinion pieces in a very subtle place - I almost never even notice them.

...and their journalists are top-notch. They don't publish unconfirmed reports, and I find that they challenge my preconceived notions regularly.

[egonschiele]

Why not just ignore the op-eds? Or are you saying you would prefer NO news to news with op-eds?

[sukilot]

WaPo especially, and NYT too, is mostly opinion and human interest commentary about how people feel, not hard news. It's exhausting to try to wade through it to find real reporting and investigations. I get why they do it (readers are dumb, mostly), but they don't even offer a "news" section.

[egonschiele]

I'm not disagreeing -- I subscribe to both and am probably going to switch my subscriptions to The Economist and WSJ, which do a better job providing actual news. I also subscribe to the Star Tribune which does a fairly good job.

I don't like op-eds either, but there are other options.

[foob4r]

News is not perfect, just like any other platform or business you use is not perfect.

I think paying for news and not reading all of it are orthogonal. If you don't like curation, RSS is still solid.

[Terretta]

If you’re going to encounter opinion-based editorializing anyway, there are probably worse sources than one with an overly well informed investigative journalism editorial board.

[sukilot]

It's not a "board" though. It's the entire reporting staff.