The problem at the Times is not that regular opinion writers like @nytdavidbrooks, Friedman or @karaswisher have bad opinions (their job is to have opinions!) but that they can write lazy columns with no fact-checking or consequences, even as their writing affects people's lives
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The Times doesn't even have a public editor to complain to about egregious falsehoods that run in its opinion pages. All readers can do is complain on social media, which just drives more traffic to the offending article
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An immediate fix we need at the times: fact-checking for opinion pieces. There's no reason that
@nytdavidbrooks should be able to write "there is no pro-democracy graffiti in Hong Kong", or@tomfriedman get basic dates wrong, on the pages of the paper of recordShow this thread
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I was interested in Friedman when The Lexus and the Olive Tree came out Then I heard his Mr Rogers talking down to kindergarteners voice (something Mr Rogers did not do) on Charlie Rose's show & realized that Friedman didn't know the difference between a Lexus & an olive tree.
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