Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editing error, a March 1 opinion piece entitled, "Crisis After Cruse" misidentified Yale Professor Cornel West as Conrad West...
Meanwhile, White House communications director Patrick J. Buchanan wrote in a Washington Post opinion piece that the choice is between Reagan's aid plan and communism. He challenged House members to choose sides...
Social acceptability is a function of which group controls society and to what extent minority voices can influence the spectrum of opinion. Just as racist ads of 50 years ago were socially acceptable to a white-dominated society, so are sexist ads today threatening to females who, despite the women's liberation movement, still have a long way to go to gain equality...
Some will argue that refusing to publish an advertisement infringes on free speech. Not really, for advertising is not free speech, and, in any case, the Playboy ad is not an opinion. As one editor noted at Sunday's in-house discussion of the ad issue, one must be able to disagree with an opinion, and the counter-argument to the Playboy solicitation is "No, a Playboy photographer will not be at the Somerville Holiday Inn this week...
...free speech is not a substanceless concept that we mouth whenever we want to prove that, yes, we really are democrats with a small "d." Free speech is the last defense of the just, for it is always the less popular, less acceptable opinion that gets quashed when freedom of expression is restricted...