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Sunday, May 04, 2003
It had long been my understanding that Op-Ed stood for "Opinion & Editorial". In his answer to the readers' question, Mat Alsdorf explains:
Op-Ed: The page in a newspaper where opinion pieces not written by the paper's editorial board appear. It originally stood for "opposite the editorial page." It also refers to the individual articles on the op-ed page (e.g., "Henry Kissinger's New York Times op-ed on the nuclear test ban treaty"). Some op-ed pieces are written by regularly syndicated columnists, and others are submitted to the newspaper unsolicited.
(Source: Explaining Today's Papers - Slate
By Matt Alsdorf
September 7, 1999)
KAZAMA 5/04/2003
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