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by godelski 480 days ago
I think you're conflating a different issue and making mole hills out of mountains.

A paper, or journalism, is much more sensitive to these issues than a typical business btw. Because as you can imagine, once readers distrust a news source it is very hard to repair that reputation.
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pengaru 480 days ago
Aren't we talking about op/ed here? I'm not a newspaper reader, but always assumed op/ed of any publication was a dumpster fire of biased opinions.

A written variant of a FoxNews talking head telling viewers how/what to think about $topic...

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godelski 480 days ago
Op-eds aren't supposed to be that way, though yes many have become that. They are supposed to be experts opining about things related to their expertise. Such as a well known computer scientist opining about the field of computer science. This is useful communication to the general public and plays a valuable role in news.

There's a million shades of grey. The bad actors only want you to see black and white

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