Reading a single extreme viewpoint is more damaging than the case itself.

Evidence

With a subject this charged, readers would have been far better served with more than a single, extreme point of view. When writers purport to educate readers about complex matters, and they are arguably wrong, I think the Times cannot label it opinion and let it go at that. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 602

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the chapter’s broader concern (and Dabashi’s general project) with how the prestige press frames racialized subjects — echoes the reader’s earlier work on media moral panics and the ‘instantiates’ link on how information chatter serves commercial interests.
• DEFINE: Makes an implicit distinction between the ‘opinion’ label and the responsibility of an editorial page when publishing demonstrably wrong claims about readers.