Editorials

Are Editorials Dead?

guardian.co.uk | 2min Ago | Posted 04.18.2012

If you can find one, look at the editorials in the typical metro paper. What you'll read, most of the time, is material that would have to improve to ...

The BP Oil Spill's Longterm Impact Is Showing

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Danny Groner

The effects of last year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are still coming to surface. A new report this weekend shows that tourism in Louisiana rema...

A Happy New Year for America?

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Danny Groner

As we look ahead to the promise of 2011, some newspapers' editorials are looking beyond their local community's needs and imparting messages that exte...

NYT Editorial Praises Beck: 'This Time, He Was Right'

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Shirley Sherrod was sandbagged by a two-and-a-half-minute clip from a 45-minute speech in which the real message was reconciliation. By the time [Gle...

Wasilla Editor Loses Job in Wake of Palin-McGinniss Dust-up

AlaskaDispatch.com | Posted 05.25.2011

AlaskaDispatch.com

When Joe McGinniss rented a house next to the Palins' home, the local paper ran an editorial reminding McGinniss that "Alaska has a law that allows the use of deadly force in protection of life and property." The editor responsible is now out.

Tsunami of pro-charter school opinion in NY dailies

Leonie Haimson | Posted 05.25.2011

Leonie Haimson

Before the state raised its cap on charter schools last month, New Yorkers were inundated with a flood of TV, radio and internet ads from the hedge-fu...

Jason Linkins

Washington Post Calls For End To Political Mayhem, But Gets Tripped Up Striving For 'Balance'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

The Washington Post editors have a well-meaning editorial up today, condemning the recent acts of vandalism and violence, but their striving for "on-the-one-hand/on-the-other-hand" balance gets a little strained.

Wall Street Journal: "Glenn Beck Counts For More At the Obama White House" Than the Progressive Movement

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

David Sirota

The White House answers more to Glenn Beck than it does to the progressive base of the Democratic Party that got them into the White House in the first place.

Sotomayor Racist?

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 05.25.2011

Abby L. Ferber

The fact that these conservative politicians and commentators don't even see racism unless they feel it is directed against them is precisely why we need the voices of women of color on the court.

The Coming Newspaper Renaissance: Instructions for Survival

Richard Laermer | Posted 05.25.2011

Richard Laermer

From whence will the Newspaper Renaissance hail? It will start with papers moving away from their belly-buttons and instead examining their core businesses.

Journalism Does Not Need To Be Saved, Newspapers Do

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 05.25.2011

Henryk A. Kowalczyk

I see editorial writing in U.S. mainstream media, with a very few exceptions, as propaganda deprived of intellectual reflection. The public senses this as well, distrusts the media instinctively.

Editorials Worldwide Attack Bush One Final Time

Reuters | Erik Kirschbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

BERLIN (Reuters) -- Editorial writers around the world have been taking their final printed whacks at George W. Bush, accusing the president of tarnis...

Obama Victory Reactions In The Media: Shock And Awe

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

After covering the longest campaign in American history for the past two years, it's fitting that all anyone in the media can talk about today is Obam...

In Their Opinion, Prop 2 is a No-Brainer

Michael Markarian | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Markarian

While some other newspaper editorial writers fell for the scare tactics of Big Agribusiness on Prop 2, plenty of opinion leaders have taken a thoughtful and careful look at the measure.

William Kristol Advises Obama On Iraq

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 05.25.2011

Jacob Heilbrunn

Usually, William Kristol deploys his New York Times column to try and provide John McCain with some extra intellectual firepower. But today he leaps into the breach to assist Obama. Or so he would have it.

Jason Linkins

Kooky Editorial In Concord Monitor Asserts That Women Cannot Be President

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Burn, ladies. Some local crank, passing himself off as a Constitutional authority, insists that this matter will soon go before the Supreme Court, where they will rule against ovaries.

Jason Linkins

In Which We Offer Assistance In 'Message Discipline'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Hillary Clinton has picked up the endorsement of Robert Farmer, former DNC treasurer and U.S. consul general to Bermuda, who provided his support in a...

Torture: Most Reporters Avoid The Word While Editorials Embrace It

Editor and Publisher | Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

As the protests surrounding revelations that the CIA had destroyed tapes that showed brutal interrogations by its agents, most new outlets refused to ...

"F--- Bush" Editorial Lands College Paper In Hot Water

Fort Collins Coloradoan | TREVOR HUGHES | Posted 05.25.2011

A four-word editorial published in the student newspaper at Colorado State University has landed the paper's student man-agers in hot water with campu...