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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.

If you talk to most people under 30, they don't read a newspaper.

The editorial page is where you'll find our opinions, while the letters columns and the space for Op-Ed contributors are a forum for debate and discussion.

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

One thing I can say right off the bat is that creating great editorial is a huge challenge, and you can't help but go through the process and not appreciate how valuable this skill is, and how much I admire the people who do this every day.

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

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.

Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.

I didn't get one word published until I was well into my 30s. But I always tried.

As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.