News’ job is to report facts. If one person says it’s raining and another says it’s not the journalist should go outside and check, not just report “he said, she said” bullshit.
Opinion/editorial and News usually have what’s called a firewall between the two departments at a newspaper. They never work together. This is news, not an opinion piece.
Journalism provides information and understanding. That’s it’s whole thing. The Information bit tends to be clear - it’s verifiable, you can see if it’s raining as in your example. Understanding is harder - it’s intangible, you infer it or deduce it. Therefore it’s non-objective, unprovable, so an opinion.
And lots of things fall into the second category - An article on what Putin’s actual objectives are in Ukraine. Why his world view became that way. What it feels like to be a Uyghur in China. What it’s like in the inside of the Trump administration. This kind of thing is valuable and it’s only communicated through opinion pieces.
I think people react strongly to it because it is something that can be weaponised and has been. Mixed in or presented as informational news. Or might just be advocating some dogshit idea or rotten agenda. There’s too many examples to mention…
That is the newspaper’s job sometimes. Offer another view of the facts with a bias different from your own.
If no one is pissed off at the newspaper then the newspaper isn’t doing their job.
News’ job is to report facts. If one person says it’s raining and another says it’s not the journalist should go outside and check, not just report “he said, she said” bullshit.
Never heard of an opinion piece? Reporting people’s takes on a situation is very much part of journalism along with factual news.
When it’s done well, it can be really powerful and informative.
This is not an opinion piece.
I never said it was.
Opinion/editorial and News usually have what’s called a firewall between the two departments at a newspaper. They never work together. This is news, not an opinion piece.
So you think opinion = fact?
Did i math that correctly?
Did I say that?
Journalism provides information and understanding. That’s it’s whole thing. The Information bit tends to be clear - it’s verifiable, you can see if it’s raining as in your example. Understanding is harder - it’s intangible, you infer it or deduce it. Therefore it’s non-objective, unprovable, so an opinion.
And lots of things fall into the second category - An article on what Putin’s actual objectives are in Ukraine. Why his world view became that way. What it feels like to be a Uyghur in China. What it’s like in the inside of the Trump administration. This kind of thing is valuable and it’s only communicated through opinion pieces.
I think people react strongly to it because it is something that can be weaponised and has been. Mixed in or presented as informational news. Or might just be advocating some dogshit idea or rotten agenda. There’s too many examples to mention…