I still don't understand why any news org has an opinion page. The two have nothing to do with one another.
That may seem antiquated now, with an unlimited amount of opinion readily available on social media or advocacy websites.
It’s tempting to think that their real value was always the reporting itself, but then how do we explain why technologies like the internet (and even TV before that) have seemed to massively disrupt their business model?
"Person X did Y on Z date" is a perfectly fine information properly residing in the news section. Writing about what the consequences of Y are very easily leaves the purely factual space once Ys consequences reach a certain complexity.