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In the end, The Hill lied and Harris was right.
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I understand that the hill published this, but it was an opinion article. I get that some people value that, but they are almost never opinions of people that should have an opinion on the matter. Either way, I don't consider opinion articles to be something that you can nail an organization to the cross over. Just sharing a perspective is all.
You should. Arguably, you should nail the to the cross for opinion pieces more, because opinion pieces exist to launder articles that the paper can't reasonably justify publishing... but still really wants to publish.
They can be used for that but they are absolutely not solely for the purpose of misinfo laundering. That's a proposterous and indefensible claim. Fucking ridiculous.
Look, you can dislike it all you want. I do. I dislike them. And I refuse to read opinion pieces, from anyone. That's what you do when you're intelligent. You check what you're reading before you read it. Do you not check your beverages to ensure they aren't floor cleaner? When your beverage tastes unpalatable do you not remember to check then? At what point does drinking a gallon of bleach become your own fault?
I hate ads. I stopped watching TV entirely because of how much I despise ads. I wasn't good at manually filtering them out so the responsible things to do was to stop watching TV until I had a solution. So over the years, I found solutions. After a while I was able to use a smart phone completely free of ads. I filtered my data and was able to use a lot of sites again. Now I get all my media from Usenet. Every now and then I walk past a TV at work and it's playing ads and I find it hilarious. I literally forget about ads. And hearing the simple fucks cry about YouTube and chrome is yet another joke for me.
I can't imagine being so opposed to something only to invest absolutely nothing into remediation and then blaming everyone else for my failure to act. Because that is what you remind me of when I read your response. You don't get to have your bleach and drink it too. At what point does reading an opinion article become your fault?
Misinfo? I'm talking about opinion pieces. "Israel has a right to defend itself" isn't strictly misinfo, but it is, arguably, an opinion. And you're correct. They're not only used for opinion laundering - they also appear to be a sort of make-work program.
And I don't know what conversation your tangent on what you're reminded of comes from, but it's not the one we're having.
Your words. Not mine. And this is what the tangent is about. You said we should nail them to the cross for publishing opinion pieces - something which I also abhor but happily accept the responsibility of avoiding. I'm not going to blame a capitalist organization for doing what a capitalist organization is always going to do. I'd be blisteringly stupid if I did that.
Once again, I'm not sure what conversation you think you're having, but it's not this one.
After seeing your rationale, I have no doubt you feel that way.
Literally your words bro. It's right there.