Is "opinion" doing more harm than good?

The Minefield
23/12/2021 54 min
Is "opinion" doing more harm than good?

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Opinion writing plays a disproportionate role in our media eco-system: it drives online traffic, fuels emotion, feeds the forces of polarisation, and promotes an incapacity to understand one another. But is there a different way to think about opinion?

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