The best is when they mix them - opinion pieces with emotion for interest, mixed in with data (even if only in sidebars).
Maybe newspapers should do more collaborations where one author writes the emotion, and the other does research and gets the data. Then an editor blends the two into a uniform article. (It would be nice for one person to do it all, but they are different enough that different people would be good at them.)
Maybe newspapers should do more collaborations where one author writes the emotion, and the other does research and gets the data. Then an editor blends the two into a uniform article. (It would be nice for one person to do it all, but they are different enough that different people would be good at them.)