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Ed Pawlowski

On 9/6/2018 6:51 AM, Druce wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Sep 2018 07:40:22 -0300, wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 06 Sep 2018 10:23:24 +1000, Druce >
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>>>>> F.H. Buckley is the author of the new book €œThe Republican Workers Party: How the Trump Victory Drove Everyone Crazy, and Why It Was Just What We Needed.€
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I wonder why the US didn't take sides in the conflict between Canada
>>>>>>> and barbaric state Saudi Arabia. Could it have been because of money,
>>>>>>> money, money? Are the US's morals for sale? To ask the question is to
>>>>>>> answer it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's more of the Trumpism at work, not news, not correct.
>>>>>
>>>>> The New York Post isn't dumb media, is it? Not like Fox News.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure, it's not one I read daily such as London Daily Telegraph, so
>>>> I don't recognise the format etc. I don't take anything at face
>>>> value anymore.
>>>
>>> Well, it's clearly just an opinion.
>>>
>>> Did you hear the current story about a high placed White House person
>>> speaking of Resistance against Trump and that he's amoral,
>>> ill-informed and reckless? And has the intellectual capacities of a
>>> 5th grader? That's nasty towards 5th graders, but anyway.
>>
>> That was an op-ed in the NY Times though, I put more faith in their
>> print
>
> I don't know what an op-ed is -editor opinion?-, but it's made
> cnn.com, Dutch news and probably worldwide.
>
Opinion-Editorial. They are written by outsiders, not the newspaper
staff. They may take the opposing view of the paper also.

It is like a Letter to the Editor but longer, often more detailed. I've
authored a couple in the past and even got paid a token amount for it.