The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Moderate to conservative Democrat. But I'm not going to impose my views on the editorial page.
Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.
We're journalists, so our default position is we're not writing editorial. We're trying to bring information to readers, viewers, so that they can make up their own conclusions.
If some modern-day David Brock wanted to defect from the conservative movement and write a tell-all focused solely on the financial chicanery of the entire right-wing nonprofit/think tank/publishing sphere, I would read the absolute heck out of it.
Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.
The big thing in favor of doing an editorial on the front page is that it would be a powerful signal of how concerned we are about guns.
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.
Editorials are, obviously, pieces of opinion journalism. They are not intended to be dispassionate, balanced accountings of a news situation or issue. They present a strong and strongly argued position and do not necessarily present or even take into account the opposing position.
I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.
And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column.