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Topic: Placement of Opinion, Placement of Fact
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May 09, 07 at 09:22PM
Placement of Opinion, Placement of Fact

I was reading this article, and I thought it was pretty unprofessional that the poster included his/her own opinion the the news article (nothing against the poster). I think it's a good stance that Gamegrep stays away from bias and reports just fact, while opinion is left for the comments.

Thoughts?



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re: Placement of Opinion, Placement of Fact

I agree that news postings should focus more on facts and information. Some amount of personal bias is bound to get in there though. I think the best types of descriptions are those that include a concise summary of the source information, plus additional information that the submitter might know about the situation (perhaps drawn from his/her knowledge of the game, or else based on other articles that they've been exposed to previously), with maybe a LITTLE bit of subjective text eg "This is very exciting news for fans and something to look forward to" is arguably a subject statement, but one which is less "biased".



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re: Placement of Opinion, Placement of Fact

If you want to express a personal opinion/bias it can always be done in the comments after you post the news post.



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re: Placement of Opinion, Placement of Fact

I guess.



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Jul 26, 07 at 07:39PM
re: Placement of Opinion, Placement of Fact

Okay.



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