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It seriously annoys me how major publications have editorial content on their main domain, on their main site, with the same template. Sure, it says "editorial"
by freehunter 8y ago
It seriously annoys me how major publications have editorial content on their main domain, on their main site, with the same template. Sure, it says "editorial" below the headline, but at first glance it looks like news. Washington Post, NYT, etc all put the full weight of their name behind content that's literally just a random blog from some random person with no fact-checking.
If I see a headline on HN or Reddit or Facebook that says "'Giant Meteor Likely to Impact Earth' - NYTimes.com", how do I know if that's an impending disaster or just someone saying "NASA says it's theoretically possible"? The only way is to click the article and look for the "editorial" line, at which point the newspaper has already won.
- pofilat 8y agoWaPo has 3 Opinion sections, only one of which they label "Opinion" (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/) The have /news/the-fix", something they call "Analysis", where they mix fact and editorialism https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/ and they have "Perspectives", also filed under /news https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/