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Unless I'm misunderstanding, opinion columns aren't exclusively written by employees, though. Sometimes they have guests.

I'm also a little skeptical of the NY Post and Daily Mail as sources, considering both are tabloids... do you have any others on hand?

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> Unless I'm misunderstanding, opinion columns aren't exclusively written by employees, though. Sometimes they have guests

It's important not to mix up "writing" and "publishing"

Something might be written by a guest writer but it is absolutely published by the employees of the magazine

I am sure that Bezos doesn't really care what anyone writes as long as the things he doesn't want published don't get published.

My second link was incorrect, sorry. I thought I had fixed it during editing. I pulled the quote from here: https://www.deseret.com/entertainment/2024/05/19/nellie-bowl...

Opinion pieces are often syndicated. The Washington Post has its own writers group, which has a large stable of writers with a variety of viewpoints. They also run guests and people syndicated from other groups.

Oh, that's interesting. I assume some of the syndication gets fanned out to smaller local papers?

Yep. Most of it. You'll see the same people in newspapers across the country.

And not just smaller papers. Even the big papers will run articles syndicated by the other papers. You'll see George Will's name pop up everywhere -- he's part of the Washington Post Writer's Group.

> I'm also a little skeptical of the NY Post and Daily Mail as sources, considering both are tabloids

And yet both have good content regularly that other publications won’t carry due to their bias. The format of printing doesn’t matter.

The format of the printing isn't what is being described by the word 'tabloid' and it hasn't been for decades. Anyone who is not in the business of printing a newspaper would normally interpret 'tabloid' to indicate a low-quality sensationalist newspaper. In the UK the industry switched to calling the format itself 'compact' because of this.

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