Comments on: Paramilitary link could sink Colombia’s Uribe http://www.coha.org/paramilitary-link-could-sink-colombias-uribe/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=paramilitary-link-could-sink-colombias-uribe COHA is an NGO specialized in monitoring Latin American and Canadian Relations for more than 30 years... Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:04:44 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Liz http://www.coha.org/paramilitary-link-could-sink-colombias-uribe/comment-page-1/#comment-34373 Liz Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:07:30 +0000 http://www.coha.org/?p=6694#comment-34373 I'm curious, is this supposed to be a news story or an opinion piece? I can't tell. It's not quite opinionated enough for a column, yet not factual enough to be news. This is one of the most biased news stories I've read in a while -- If one can call this news. "Re-election would pose a threat to the checks and balances necessary for a healthy democracy," Patel writes. This sentence alone, one of the many opinions with no citation, is a flagrant assertion. COHA should either pay for Ms. Patel to take some journalism courses, or stop allowing her to write such poorly cited pieces. Journalist to journalist ... this does a disservice to the field itself. I'm curious, is this supposed to be a news story or an opinion piece? I can't tell. It's not quite opinionated enough for a column, yet not factual enough to be news. This is one of the most biased news stories I've read in a while — If one can call this news.

"Re-election would pose a threat to the checks and balances necessary for a healthy democracy," Patel writes.

This sentence alone, one of the many opinions with no citation, is a flagrant assertion. COHA should either pay for Ms. Patel to take some journalism courses, or stop allowing her to write such poorly cited pieces. Journalist to journalist … this does a disservice to the field itself.

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