Gonna subscribe to the first Irish newspaper to get rid of its Op-Ed section.

The hate-click for ads model is dead.

There& #39;s no reason to keep the Corens, Quinns etc in place.

Stop antagonising your readers.
It is bad business sense in the long run.
What& #39;s the worst that can happen? Coren has to sell a kidney to pay his vintner& #39;s bill?
Newspapers ten or fifteen years ago didn’t employ opinion columnists whose job was to antagonise & enrage.

It became a thing fairly recently, for clicks.

It has had a terrible effect on everyone’s lives.

Time to spend the money on actual journalism, not shit-stirring.
I actually got asked to write an opinion piece a while back, based on some opinion I& #39;d shared on here.

I said no, in part because my opinion is about as valuable or as useful as anything available for free on Twitter.

But then so is Coren& #39;s, Breda O& #39;Brien& #39;s or whoever& #39;s.
By the way, I would genuinely welcome any response to this from people in newspapers.

I& #39;m making a purely economic argument - what are the economics of the Op-Ed section?

Is there a genuine reason for it to be indispensable?
(If nothing else this thread is good for finding out which journos have muted me)
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