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		fortuna86 on Sept 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook tried to make its platform a healthier pl... Respectfully I disagree. The opinion section is fundamentally different (and damaging) to the news reporting, and shouldn't exist. But opinion content is many times more popular than straight news, it seems people like being told what to think.

OneEyedRobot on Sept 15, 2021 [–]

I think that news has extended quite far into op-ed space. There's a combination of just what news is reported and just how a thing is worded.

Modern newspapers and news magazines (they still exist?) don't read at all like the ones from 50 years ago.

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