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I disagree. Intellectual merit is in the eyes of the beholder. Sometimes it is valuable to hear a view for the simple fact that it is held by a lot of people or

by Gimpei 5y ago

I disagree. Intellectual merit is in the eyes of the beholder. Sometimes it is valuable to hear a view for the simple fact that it is held by a lot of people or it's influential. If a bunch of people hold a view that I despise, at the very least I'd like to have a sense of why. I have no desire to have my own opinion regurgitated back at me. And no, I'm not afraid of readers of the NY Times being swayed by "propaganda." NY Times readers as a whole have a pretty firmly set worldview. One Op-Ed won't make a damn bit of difference.

tehjoker 5y ago
“It requires a macro, alongside a micro- (story-by-story), view of media operations, to see the pattern of manipulation and systematic bias.” (p. 2) -- Manufacturing Consent
jjk166 5y ago
Which is more valuable for real discussion: hearing an opinion you disagree with argued well and thus coming to see why it is widely held, or hearing a view you disagree with argued poorly, further convincing you that its adherents are simply morons? If you're not getting the opinions you want to read, it's easy enough to pick up a different paper. The danger of a bad op-ed is tricking people into thinking they are getting both sides of the story when they aren't.