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Old 06-15-2011, 11:15 PM
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Default Opinion Versus News

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Originally Posted by Hancle704 View Post
It's getting harder to find facts on the NY Time Editorial/Opinion Pages and it's not too hard to find opinions on the NY Times news pages.

Reminds me of Mark Twain who wrote...
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
The editorial or opinion pages of any newspaper or magazine are for exactly that--editorials or opinion. If you wish to read news, you need to go to other parts of the paper to read columns written by reporters, not columnists.

When people criticize a media source of being left or right, it's often because of what they publish on the editorial or opinion pages, articles written by columnists. Oftentimes those same media sources do a superb job of reporting the facts of the news in news articles. I won't argues that the New York Times columnists don't tend to "lean left". But I will argue that the paper does a superb job of reporting the news.