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I have to admit though... as someone who works in "the media," and painstakingly weighs out the content of opinion pages to make sure that they reflect both sides of an issue at pretty much all times, I am growing VERY tired of the non-stop editorializing that a lot of national publications and TV news channels are engaging in, and have been engaging in throughout the primaries and the general.
Not only is it unprincipled bullshit to load up your "news" feeds with editorials that all align with a partisan perspective (looking at you, Newsweek), it's also just providing more fodder to the right, and the folks who insist that the media is not to be trusted.
You can't beat the right when it comes to smearing and editorializing. You just can't. They're better at it. So don't engage. Or, as Pelley learned on 60 Minutes, they will beat your ass at a game they've perfected. You can have all the facts in the world on your side, but it doesn't matter. Not today. So I would urge the national pubs to report facts objectively and without "slant" of any kind.
And knock it off with the Opinion pieces for fuck's sake!
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