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A surprising number of news pieces actually end up giving you some sort of opinion. As a made-up example, a news article on Samsung's falling stock might focus
by personjerry 10y ago
A surprising number of news pieces actually end up giving you some sort of opinion.
As a made-up example, a news article on Samsung's falling stock might focus on its Note 7 failures, making the assumption (and thus giving the reader the impression) that the mobile phone is the main cause of the company's decreasing revenues, when in fact the company's general electronic components sales have been dying for months. But this slow decrease is much less sensational and might've missed the headlines. This sort of "opinion" is far more difficult to notice, but still exists in reporting in the form of attempting to speculate on the reasons behind the facts.
This article just happens to be particular blunt about its assumptions.
- kuschku 10y ago> This sort of "opinion" is far more difficult to notice, but still exists in reporting in the form of attempting to speculate on the reasons behind the facts. But that’s how it’s usually marked – as a seperate, independent part of the article, marked opinion or speculation, or by putting it in context.