Word: opinionizing
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...there were an international prize for mean-spiritedness, Germaine Greer would be on the podium this week delivering her acceptance speech. Steve Irwin's body was barely out of the water before the UK's Guardian newspaper published the expatriate Australian's opinion that the animal world "has finally taken its revenge" on the Crocodile Hunter...
...Greer is not an intellectual for nothing. In one of the great feats of opinion writing she will channel the dead man and berate him for the words she puts in his mouth. "You can just imagine Irwin yelling: 'Just look at those beauties! Crikey! With those barbs a stingray can kill a horse!'" Greer bravely sets her imaginary Irwin straight: "Yes Steve, but a stingray doesn't want to kill a horse. It eats crustaceans, for God's sake." I had previously assumed British editors consult Greer because they mistake her tedious prejudices for some special insight into Australia...
...felt that both conventional wisdom and the opinion of news media audiences was probably unaware of how often in the past newspapers have made decisions to withhold entire articles or subjects or parts of them,” Siegal said Thursday...
Garance Franke-Ruta ’97, who is a senior editor at The American Prospect, will examine the representation of women in opinion journalism during her time at Harvard...
...power in 1997 buoyed by a huge parliamentary majority and even bigger expectations of what New Labour could accomplish. He led his party to two more general election victories, the last only 15 months ago. Yet today he's on the ropes, forced by an overwhelming tide of opinion in his party and the country to say when he'll leave Downing Street - or face the humiliation of being forced out. In a public statement Thursday (no questions permitted), he confirmed hints from Cabinet allies that he'd quit within a year, but rebuffed calls for a specific timetable. Still...