Editorials

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

David Sirota | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics


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 06.28.2009 | Politics


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 06.11.2009 | Media


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 03.13.2009 | Media


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 02.19.2009 | World


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 12.06.2008 | Politics


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 11.02.2008 | Politics


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 07.29.2008 | Politics


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 03.28.2008 | Politics


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 03.28.2008 | Politics


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 03.28.2008 | Media


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 03.28.2008 | Media


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...