Comments on: The NYT on the LAT’s op/ed Page http://poliblogger.com/?p=7305 A rough draft of my thoughts... Thu, 08 Dec 2025 05:27:48 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: pennywit http://poliblogger.com/?p=7305&cpage=1#comment-72072 pennywit Mon, 13 Jun 2025 13:53:10 +0000 http://poliblogger.com/?p=7305#comment-72072 I've actually written editorials before. Generally, the newspaper's editoral board would assign me a topic and a stance, and my job was to set out the newspaper's stance on the issue and support it based on the discussion in the editorial board ... which included outside "community representatives," though the publisher controlled 51 percent of the vote when it came time to what went in the paper. Jack Nelson's objection is unpersuasive. The "institutional voice" would be preserved because the editoral board itself would still set the general direction for the newspaper's editorials, even if the specifics are filled in by "outsiders." --|PW|-- I’ve actually written editorials before. Generally, the newspaper’s editoral board would assign me a topic and a stance, and my job was to set out the newspaper’s stance on the issue and support it based on the discussion in the editorial board … which included outside “community representatives,” though the publisher controlled 51 percent of the vote when it came time to what went in the paper.

Jack Nelson’s objection is unpersuasive. The “institutional voice” would be preserved because the editoral board itself would still set the general direction for the newspaper’s editorials, even if the specifics are filled in by “outsiders.”

–|PW|–

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