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Re:McClatchy Follows BuzzFeed, Vice, and Others in Cutting S... by vkou on Friday February 01, 2019 @03:34PM (#19058262)
Opinion pieces and biases are the thing that will stay. They are cheap and easy to write.

Good reporting costs money. A lot of money.

Also, don't confuse our prevailing normative social biases with a 'lack of bias'.

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Re:McClatchy Follows BuzzFeed, Vice, and Others in Cutting S... by DeusExMachina on Friday February 01, 2019 @03:43PM (#19058389)
The Huffington Post dropped its whole opinion section[1], so that seems to contradict your statement.

- [1] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/huffington-post-shut...

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Re:McClatchy Follows BuzzFeed, Vice, and Others in Cutting S... by BeetleB on Friday February 01, 2019 @04:52PM (#19059068)
Does it?

It's been almost a decade since I last looked at HuffPost, but what original reporting do they do? Back in those days, it was all opinion pieces, or piggybacking on other's original reporting.

If they don't do any original reporting, then dropping the opinion section doesn't contradict anything.

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