editorialize

State personal views

To editorialize is to express opinions rather than report facts objectively.

The word comes from journalism, where editorials are opinion pieces distinct from news coverage.

A reporter who editorializes lets personal views color what should be neutral reporting: The anchor couldn't help editorializing about the verdict.

More broadly, it means injecting commentary where it wasn't asked for: Just tell me what happened without editorializing.

opinion

op-ed

Signed newspaper commentary

columnVertical structural element
commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
viewpointWay of seeing things

perspective · opinion piece · thinkpiece · punditry · polemic · diatribe · harangue · soapbox · pontificate · opine

bias

slant

Oblique angle or bias

spinRapid rotation around axis
partialityUnfair favor toward some
one-sidednessImbalanced viewpoint or treatment

subjectivity · distortion · misrepresentation · partisan · tendentious · skewed · loaded · colored · prejudiced · advocacy journalism

critique

analysis

Methodical study of parts

commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
interpretationAssigned meaning
critiqueDetailed evaluative analysis

evaluation · assessment · appraisal · review · examination · dissection · annotation · explication · gloss · exposition

Opposites

objectivity vs. opinion

editorializereport

Formal written findings

inform · document · chronicle · record · relay

restraint vs. expression

editorializehold one's tongue

Deliberately not speak

bite one's tongue · keep mum

speech act directness

editorializeshow don't tell

Writing principle favoring demonstration

bite one's tongue · hold one's peace

Family

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