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No, sorry, I don’t agree at all. I consider Gavin de Becker to be exceptionally credible, and think any idea that “all op-eds are the same” is beyond disingenuo

• zaroth 8y ago
  I don’t know anything about Gavin. Not that I particularly trust journalists but they are supposed to be neutral third parties reporting facts. I agree that something that I didn’t say would have been disingenuous, but I’m not sure why you would bring it up. I’m sure you would agree that it being an op-ed tells us primarily that this article was not written by a neutral third party. We would not be surprised if it makes little to no effort to present opposing views. As an op-ed it is free to make unsupported conjectures and should probably be approached with a higher bar of skepticism and should be expected to provide facts or evidence to back up any of its novel claims. In short, op-eds are not news, and should not be treated as such. Not that “news” is particularly deserving of the distinction these days. I said simply that we should not take op-ed claims at face value. You said you don’t agree at all. I mean, you are perfectly free to take the claims at face value if you like, but appeal to authority is hardly compelling and perhaps even a bit disingenuous itself.