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I think the title of "newspaper" ought to be removed from the Time. It should be replaced with "tabloid" or "fan(atic) fiction".
In Sunday's New York Times, Elisabeth Rosenthal claimed, as the title of her article put it, "More Guns = More Killing." She based this on evidence that would never be permitted in any other context at the Times: (1) anecdotal observations; and (2) bald assertions of an activist, blandly repeated with absolutely no independent fact-checking by the Times.
There is an academic, peer-reviewed, long-term study of the effect of various public policies on public, multiple shootings in all 50 states over a 20-year period performed by renowned economists at the University of Chicago and Yale, William Landes and John...
Or just hear about it based on conservative commentators?
Should papers, including a virtual paper like TH have opinion pieces some of them incorrect in their pages. I would say yes.
TH does all the time. NYT imo, less so, but still does especially without outside columnists who are not fact checked.