[colinmhayes]

You're thinking of their opinion section. The reporting is solid.

[fortuna86]

Which is another argument for scrapping the opinion section of every newspaper, it confuses people.

But they keep it for the same reason FB doesn't turn down their own volume, angry people make for better customers.

[OneEyedRobot]

>Which is another argument for scrapping the opinion section of every newspaper, it confuses people.

At this point, I'd say that that's the entire newspaper. They operate in the same ad space as Facebook.

[fortuna86]

Respectfully I disagree. The opinion section is fundamentally different (and damaging) to the news reporting, and shouldn't exist. But opinion content is many times more popular than straight news, it seems people like being told what to think.

[OneEyedRobot]

I think that news has extended quite far into op-ed space. There's a combination of just what news is reported and just how a thing is worded.

Modern newspapers and news magazines (they still exist?) don't read at all like the ones from 50 years ago.