By Josh Pasek
Many of the documents linked to by the RJC come complete with newspaper images and links. These are effective political tools because they offer the aura of legitimacy for what is being said in the article. Yet the articles are almost universally opinion pieces (or op-eds). This means that their actual text is simply the perspective of a single individual. Further, the text of these articles is often written by members of the RJC board. While we are all for referring to news articles, the links that the RJC provides are not checked for accurate information by the newspaper, so everything in them is at the word of the author. With the RJC’s history, it may not be too good an idea to simply accept their members’ view of the facts.
