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[–] cuerdo@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Both opinions agree that you should not vote for Obama, that is the editorial strategy, the different motivations are to capture the whole range of voters.

Nowadays it is even easier to do this, thank to personalized news. They can tell unemployed people that immigrants are stealing all the jobs, while they can tell taxpayers that immigrants are leaving off grants. They can even tell cat lovers that immigrants are eating all the cats.

The idea you are pushing that Op-Eds are a whiteboard for diverse opinions is either innocent or malicious.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago

Op Eds are obviously influenced by the bias of the newspaper that runs them. But, there's no need to veer into conspiracy theories just because two of them happen to be anti-Obama for different reasons.