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> Edit: also note that this article is on the WSJ opinion page, and didn’t come from the news desk.

Thank you. We really need news websites to some how more clearly delineate opinion pieces from news desk pieces. In the old days, you knew which was which based on what page of the paper it was on. A standard that has all online opinion pieces published with a colored background or something would really help.

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There is a logo at the top that says WSJ OPINION and it says "OPINION COMMENTARY" above the headline.

Maybe it's easy to miss for someone's first time on the site, but I've personally never had any issue.

Also when WSJ posts to social media they prefix the headline with "Opinion"

It’s in squished, gray hard to read type, and not in the bounding box formed by the article title and the story.

I’m sure an eye tracker study would show that few people read that part of the page.

There is a sticky header with the WSJ OPINION logo as your scroll down the article [1]

What more do you want?

[1] https://imgur.com/a/7uN5UUX

The URL does however not reflect this, while it could. URLs are supposed to be informative.

Nobody outside of tech reads urls, nobody.

People in tech usually don't either.

> A California Plan to Chase Away the Rich, Then Keep Stalking Them

The title practically screams opinion piece. No serious outlet would write that at the top of a news piece.

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