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Is this the NYT article you are referring to? http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/opinion/jeff-sessions-other-civil-rights-problem.html http://www.nytimes.com/201
by pg314 10y ago
Is this the NYT article you are referring to?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/opinion/jeff-sessions-other-civil-rights-problem.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/opinion/jeff-sessions-othe...
That is an opinion piece. A lot of people seem to be conflating opinion pieces and reporting. You can't use opinion pieces to prove bias in a newspaper's reporting.
- ewzimm 10y agoI could give you examples of bias in reporting too, but when you look at a website as a whole, opinions are inserted right next to regular articles, and they're often hard to distinguish. This opinion piece is written a lot like a journalistic article, and has the same style of quotes and facts to make it look objective. It's not that different from including native advertising in with regular articles. Sure, there's a "sponsored" tag in there if you notice it, but it works with the rest of the content to create a narrative and bias you toward interpreting facts a certain way. Anyway, my point was to show how sources and facts can push an agenda.