• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    12 hours ago

    True story. Back in 2008 there were two op-ed pieces on the smae page of the Murdoch owned New York Post.

    One said that voting for Obama was a waste of time, because he was a centrist neoliberal who’d only serve up milder versions of GOP programs, so you’d be better off with an actual Republican.

    The other screamed that he was a radical Socialist who would destroy America.

    Same newspaper, same page, no irony

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      6 hours ago

      Brace yourself for all the “gotcha!” comments from enlightened centrists that don’t understand the core concept of controlled opposition or propaganda.

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        10 hours ago

        Not only is it what Op Eds are for, it’s also extremely common practice to have two contrasting views on the same page to give voice to a variety of different opinions.

        Complaining about two Op Eds on the same page with different opinions is like complaining that a dictionary has two definitions of two different words on the same page.

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        6 hours ago

        So, you read what I wrote and concluded that in life I’d only seen one Op-Ed page?

        You funny, in a sad way.

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          Apparently so. You seem surprised that there were two people who had different opinions on the same page in the Op Eds. That’s what Op Eds are.

          Again, I ask, are you familiar with the concept of an Op Ed? Or are you just confused that people might have different opinions?