>tl;dr: /r/news considers the piece an opinion piece and they don't allow those.
Except they do allow them and apply this rule(s) at their whim.
The next excuse that's trotted out is that reddit isn't a democracy moderators can do that if they want to. Go make your own subreddit if you don't like it, etc.
Fine, what a shitty way to run a default subreddit. (little transparency, little accountability, etc.)
>And here's the last paragraph of The Incerpt aticle that makes clear it's opinion:
So what, you can find the same in a good portion of the content that remains on /r/news etc. The article is not an Op Ed, but if you like, read all but the last two paragraphs. Furthermore, the Intercept article[1] was rewritten[2] by other journalists to exclude "editorialized content" and also subsequently moderated.
Missing from much of the discussion on this is the irony that the story in question exposes gov't operations whose task is ongoing infiltration and manipulation of the media. Even if you're happy to defer to the mods' interpretations that the articles written to date regarding this particular news story are appropriately moderated; you must then concede that the rules are inappropriate if they manage to effectively exclude such a timely and appropriate news story.
Except they do allow them and apply this rule(s) at their whim.
The next excuse that's trotted out is that reddit isn't a democracy moderators can do that if they want to. Go make your own subreddit if you don't like it, etc.
Fine, what a shitty way to run a default subreddit. (little transparency, little accountability, etc.)
>And here's the last paragraph of The Incerpt aticle that makes clear it's opinion:
So what, you can find the same in a good portion of the content that remains on /r/news etc. The article is not an Op Ed, but if you like, read all but the last two paragraphs. Furthermore, the Intercept article[1] was rewritten[2] by other journalists to exclude "editorialized content" and also subsequently moderated.
Missing from much of the discussion on this is the irony that the story in question exposes gov't operations whose task is ongoing infiltration and manipulation of the media. Even if you're happy to defer to the mods' interpretations that the articles written to date regarding this particular news story are appropriately moderated; you must then concede that the rules are inappropriate if they manage to effectively exclude such a timely and appropriate news story.
[1] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...
[2] http://www.examiner.com/article/snowden-government-infiltrat...