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by mrkstu 662 days ago
Maybe it's my time on staff at a college newspaper in the early 90s. Neutral voice reporting was drilled into us pretty mercilessly.

When it is a pretty straightforward recounting of an event, just give me the facts please.

Its his own site, so understandably the editorial voice is his to do what as he wills, but again, in the end I believe it undermines his own credibility with his readership, or at least sprinkle more of the opinionated voice at the beginning so I can read it in that mindset, rather than having to recast my view on the reporting post hoc.

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Yeah, I suppose I went in primed for a more opinionated style just because of the fact that I was reading an unknown author’s Substack rather than something that purported to be news. I definitely take your point about moving the partisan comments up front.