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Bizarre that this is (at this time) the top comment with numerous replies and nobody has yet pointed out that this is not a NYTimes journalism piece; it is an o

• throwaway2048 5y ago
  This is a regular source of confusion on HN, usually accompanied by dozens to hundreds of comments about how you just can't trust the media, also if anyone points out the nature of opinion pieces you usually get a doubling down about how its printed by the NYT so its the same thing as reporting.
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• hinkley 5y ago
  Then NYT is diluting their brand and they deserve some of the blowback anyway.
  • majewsky 5y ago
    It's absolutely commonplace for newspapers to publish op-eds. In fact, I'd be more surprised if any particular newspaper didn't do it. In print, it's usually not a source of confusion because the op-eds are on their own page or in their own column that has "Opinion" or something in the heading. This is something that the NYT's website should try harder to emulate (or it should provide some other sort of visual differentiation between reporting and opinion contents), but "diluting their brand" is a quite extraordinary claim.