Whats the difference between opinion pieces and news analysis?
The news pages include straight news reports, but also analyses, columns and reviews. All are written and edited by newsroom staff. News analyses that run in the news sections are fact-based assessments by reporters who are knowledgeable about the issue or news event they are covering. Columns and reviews in the news sections are fact-based, but offer as well the writers’ perspective on those facts. These are unlike the opinion pieces and editorials that are published in the opinion section, which offer in addition to interpretation of the news a strong viewpoint meant to persuade. (Readers who believe that news articles show bias are invited to send specifics to the readers’ representative office.) Why aren’t crowd counts always a part of stories about marches and protests? Accurately counting the size of a large crowd is a very difficult endeavor, best done from an aerial viewpoint using a grid system. That is rarely done. Instead, officials or organizers of demonstrations often esti
