Reporters, however, are often reluctant to create their own analogies as they may seem to be too opinionated.

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It is by no means the only solution to this problem, and there continues to be a lively and opinionated debate among designers and developers about its merits and pitfalls.

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The logical owner would be a firm committed to opinionated journalism, with a clear strategy for making money from online journalism and a large TV news-gathering operation that could feed video into a Newsweek iPad application.

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Once people get used to the simplicity and (opinionated) power of the Mailbox interface, it will be hard to go back.

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But a closer read suggests that what Current offers instead may be that much more appealing to the notoriously opinionated host: independence.

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They tend to be fact-free but ever noisy and opinionated!

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But the opinionated South Carolinian doesn't want to be tied down to a party.

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