Posted by motrans on Mon, Sep 21, 2015, at 2:45 PM:
Has an op-ed article you have read ever changed your opinion on an issue?
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I honestly cannot recall ever having read another person's opinion in an article and changing my opinion.
-- Posted by motrans on Mon, Sep 21, 2015, at 2:47 PM
Do you mean by professional writers or just anyone writing an opinion or a letter to the editor?
-- Posted by not_sorry on Mon, Sep 21, 2015, at 2:49 PM
Yes. I have read a few opinions/editorials that shed insight on issues from a viewpoint of which I had not considered, which led me to change my opinion.
That occurred more often when I was younger, and thought of many governmental actions "that doesn't affect me" or "that seems harmless enough", until I read someone's explanation of how it does affect me or of how a seemingly harmless concept was actually quite harmful.
Nowadays, I generally wait to formulate an opinion on most subjects until I have considered them more fully, so it happens less often. Rarely do I consider that any government action does not affect me, nor that they are harmless.
-- Posted by Shapley Hunter on Mon, Sep 21, 2015, at 3:19 PM
Don't really see the point in reading some self-professed "expert" editorialist's opinion. Editorial writers have a biased agenda to push. I'm not interested.
If I want true expert opinion, I'll get it from theorist and common on my favorite entertainment forum, Speak Out. The only two I know of that are always right and have the only opinions that count. God Bless them!!
-- Posted by FreedomFadingFast on Mon, Sep 21, 2015, at 8:31 PM
To answer the question yes or no, it would be Yes.
I have learned to respect the power of the headline.
It is easy to skim the headlines and assume what it's about. Sometimes even a liberal view changes my opinion.
-- Posted by Old John on Mon, Sep 21, 2015, at 8:49 PM
"Has an op-ed article you have read ever changed your opinion on an issue?" If it was made by our current Administration, never. If it was made by an non-political person, sometimes.
-- Posted by Truth Slinger on Mon, Sep 21, 2015, at 9:01 PM
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Has an op-ed article you have read ever changed your opinion on an issue?
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