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This is an Op-Ed piece by Roger Cohen. It's not an article. But Cohen is a Times employee; an editor, in fact. This is not the work of some random partisan th
by masonic 10y ago
This is an Op-Ed piece by Roger Cohen. It's not an article.
But Cohen is a Times employee; an editor, in fact. This is not the work of some random partisan think tank writer merely carried by the Times.
These two elements go well beyond the pale of any sense of journalism:
1) "... his cavalier trashing of the alliance and union that ushered the the Continent from its darkest hours..."
Um, what? When has he trashed (cavalierly or not) the USA-Britain alliance of WW2? Has the P.M. stated anything of the kind?
2) Cohen's piling-on of personal insults. He has no place diagnosing anyone with "narcissistic personality disorder", let alone claiming that Trump has a "lust for torture... and carnage".
- grzm 10y agoYup. And it's expressing an opinion, as opposed to being a more objective article. As I said above, this doesn't excuse any misrepresentation of fact, but it does allow for more lenient application of perspective and interpretation. And the op-ed pieces do sometimes express partisan or political leanings. This shouldn't be a surprise, or even controversial.
- grzm 10y agoI believe the references to World War II are due to the history of the phrase "America First", which goes back at least to the "America First Committee" which was pro-isolationist and against the US entering the war in Europe during WWII. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee - https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/trump-america-first/514037/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/trump-a...
- mcphage 10y ago> This is an Op-Ed piece by Roger Cohen. It's not an article. But Cohen is a Times employee; an editor, in fact. Why, it's almost like that would make this piece... an editorial!