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Value-laden labels – such as calling an organization a cult, an individual a racist, sexist, terrorist, or freedom fighter, or a sexual practice a perversion – may express contentious opinion and are best avoided unless widely used by reliable sources to describe the subject, in which case use in-text attribution.
An op-ed (short for "opposite the editorial page") is a type of written prose commonly found in newspapers, magazines, and online publications. [1] They usually represent a writer's strong and focused opinion on an issue of relevance to a targeted audience.
The term "public opinion" was derived from the French opinion publique, which was first used in 1588 by Michel de Montaigne, one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, in the second edition of his famous Essays (ch. XXII). [2] The French term also appears in the 1761 work Julie, or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Haley’s hopes for a strong showing in the New Hampshire primary on January 23 rest on the possibility of significant crossover voting from those outside the GOP.
A less abstract study was the Stanford biased interpretation experiment, in which participants with strong opinions about the death penalty read about mixed experimental evidence. Twenty-three percent of the participants reported that their views had become more extreme, and this self-reported shift correlated strongly with their initial ...
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Alexander J. Motyl, opinion contributor. December 13, 2024 at 9:30 AM. ... That it’s strong and stable because Putin says it’s strong and stable, ...
[56] [57] Moreover, non-nuanced reporting by the media about poll data and public opinions can even aggravate political polarization. [ 58 ] Morris P. Fiorina (2006, 2008) posits the hypothesis that polarization is a phenomenon which does not hold for the public, and instead is formulated by commentators to draw further division in government.