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Originally Posted by Cappy
Opinion pieces in Newspapers etc. are now just essentially paid news. The National Post has gotten ridiculous with the amount of opinion pieces they run.
The issue is that opinion pieces are effective clickbait and drive so much traffic.
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Haha yes... I remember being a naive young lad just entering the public relations world and feeling icky about writing advertorials that would then be placed as opinion pieces by semi-prominent folks who we paid in various jurisdictions.
The reality is that no one wants to say nice things about any subject without something in it for them. But people will line up almost endlessly to say mean things, with no potential benefit in it for them. Strange.