Why duplicate effort?
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“We merged our editorial and ‘news’ divisions decades ago” Gannett spokesman Dan Rather explained to FWIW, “so really, this is just a formal recognition of that, not any big change. And running op-ed content that runs counter to our own positions only serves to confuse the reader, and interfere with our reporters’ indoctrination efforts — we learned all this at CBS, but there’s no reason not to utilize the technique, gain the same cost efficiencies, in an old fashioned medium like print.”
