That is completely orthogonal. Journalism includes developing and editing articles to meet expected standards, and you can evaluate that independent of agreeing or disagreeing with the message. Being factually incorrect in the case of the top 15 CEOs is not excusable just because it's an opinion piece. I tend to think of NYT as a high quality paper and was surprised to see this filler.

>"That is completely orthogonal"

No its, not. An Op-Ed is a specific format as distinct from regular journalism, it is not edited other than grammatically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed

Touche