dissent

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< Maybe you don't know that journalism also includes the articles that go on 
the editorial page of a newspaper, or other opinion pieces -- the sort of 
thing that the New York Times publishes on its Op-Ed page.  There's news 
journalism, and there's opinion journalism ... blah blah blah.>>

Yes, thanks.  

The difference is that what you pass along here is--transparently and despite 
your protests otherwise--not offered to stimulate discussion, certainly not 
for reasons of quality, but because they support your particular position. 
You've posted nothing rom sources outside the mainstream press that broadens 
the issue from the other side.

<<Opinion journalism is where the writer -- the journalist -- takes a 
specific position with regard to an issue, and often puts together an 
argument with the aim of persuading the reader to agree with that position.>>

Cutting and pasting isn't journalism.  One talent that separates what most of 
us would consider journalists and you  is precisely that ability to put 
together a persuasive argument.