Re:Google Doesn't Want What's Best for Us
by ucaetano on Sunday August 13, 2017 @06:41PM
(#15005375)
It is part of the NYT's opinion section, and not the editorial board's opinion.
Newspapers include opinion sections from very diverse authors. The NYT has, for example, published a section by Putin:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-cau...
Re:Google Doesn't Want What's Best for Us
by humanrebar on Sunday August 13, 2017 @06:53PM
(#15005428)
Opinion pieces are typically paid. I suspect world leaders and billionaires are not paid, though.
The Times does decide what to print, even if they print an unpaid Putin. They would presumably decline to print a letter from Kim Jong Un about how he shot 38 under par, including five holes-in-one.
Re:Google Doesn't Want What's Best for Us
by ucaetano on Sunday August 13, 2017 @06:57PM
(#15005444)
> The Times does decide what to print, even if they print an unpaid Putin.
Yes:
https://www.nytimes.com/content/help/site/editorial/op-ed/op...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/opinion/op-ed-and-you.html...
This piece was paid for and printed by the Times. It might have been edited by the Times as well. It's not a letter to the editor.
Either way, Taplin considers himself an expert on Silicon Valley culture and seems to have problems objectively describing at least this part of it.