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Re:California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 da... by secabeen on Saturday December 19, 2020 @12:17PM (#25478999)
> Edit: also note that this article is on the WSJ opinion page, and didn’t come from the news desk.

Thank you. We really need news websites to some how more clearly delineate opinion pieces from news desk pieces. In the old days, you knew which was which based on what page of the paper it was on. A standard that has all online opinion pieces published with a colored background or something would really help.

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Re:California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 da... by annexrichmond on Saturday December 19, 2020 @12:52PM (#25479400)
There is a logo at the top that says WSJ OPINION and it says "OPINION COMMENTARY" above the headline.

Maybe it's easy to miss for someone's first time on the site, but I've personally never had any issue.

Also when WSJ posts to social media they prefix the headline with "Opinion"

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Re:California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 da... by hedora on Saturday December 19, 2020 @02:27PM (#25480342)
It’s in squished, gray hard to read type, and not in the bounding box formed by the article title and the story.

I’m sure an eye tracker study would show that few people read that part of the page.

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Re:California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 da... by annexrichmond on Saturday December 19, 2020 @03:16PM (#25480787)
There is a sticky header with the WSJ OPINION logo as your scroll down the article [1]

What more do you want?

[1] https://imgur.com/a/7uN5UUX

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Re:California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 da... by Fnoord on Saturday December 19, 2020 @04:06PM (#25481203)
The URL does however not reflect this, while it could. URLs are supposed to be informative.
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Re:California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 da... by NeutronStar on Saturday December 19, 2020 @08:09PM (#25482947)
Nobody outside of tech reads urls, nobody.
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Re:California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 da... by 411111111111111 on Sunday December 20, 2020 @06:18AM (#25485483)
People in tech usually don't either.
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Re:California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 da... by Privacy846 on Saturday December 19, 2020 @07:05PM (#25482548)
> A California Plan to Chase Away the Rich, Then Keep Stalking Them

The title practically screams opinion piece. No serious outlet would write that at the top of a news piece.

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