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> This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners. Why do they publish this then?

• Barrin92 6y ago
  to bring diversity of opinion to the newspaper, that's where "op-eds" got their name from, literally opposite the editorial board.
  • disown 6y ago
    > to bring diversity of opinion to the newspaper But the author of the article is a bloomberg employee. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ASj7dG4ftKY/andy-mukherjee https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ASj7dG4ftKY/andy-m... > that's where "op-eds" got their name from, literally opposite the editorial board. No. It got it's name from being "opposite of the editorial page". Not the editorial board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed