For the past couple weeks, I've been blogging about the problems
newspaper opinion pages have with science.
As we documented in a recent study of
newspaper opinion pages, one place where this problem is alive and well is USA Today, which often pairs scientifically accurate editorials about climate change with «opposing view» op - eds that flatly deny climate change is happening or that it's caused by human activities.
After all, what appears on
newspaper opinion pages is a decision made by editors.
Not exact matches
In its latest incarnation, Medium says it would like people to think of it as the online version of the
newspaper op - ed or
opinion page.
As a
newspaper editor, you often have to set aside your own
opinions to allow others to use your
pages to express theirs.
I showed them the
opinion page of the
newspaper and told students they were going to write a letter to the editor.
Have students examine the various aspects of immigration from their assigned perspective, compile their findings in multimedia presentations, and collaborate to write
opinion pieces for the editorial
page of the
newspaper.
As we wrote Monday, Democrat Glenda Ritz earned the support of another
newspaper over the weekend: The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette «s editorial board endorsed her in their Sunday
opinion pages, criticizing Bennett's push for more school choice and broadened state powers to intervene in schools with chronically - poor test scores.
These few supplemental
pages, which placed young people in the context of mass
newspapers, were an unprecedented format that enabled them to tell their stories in their own language, expressing
opinions about politics and everyday life.
The excerpts, which present contradictory views on the practice of law enforcement profiling, are printed separately on the front and back of each sheet, much like a
newspaper, where an
opinion on one side of a
page might contradict another on its reverse.
It is important to remember that climate science is not a public debate carried out on the
opinion pages of
newspapers.
The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and The Washington Post all published climate science denial and other scientifically inaccurate statements about climate change on their
opinion pages over the last year and a half, while The New York Times avoided doing so, according to a new Media Matters analysis of those four
newspapers.
I recently read a letter in the
opinion page of a
newspaper i have worked for and was troubled by the flakyness of their argument.
The strongest evidence for a distinction between left - leaning and right - leaning
newspapers can be found in the
opinion pages in France, the UK and the USA, where right - leaning
newspapers are much more likely to include uncontested skeptical voices.
But the climate sceptics who inhabit the internet and dominate the editorial offices and
opinion pages of The Australian
newspaper are responsible for only the most obvious form of denial — repudiation of climate science.
Before joining the Farm Bureau in February 2008, Mr. Krist worked for 24 years as a reporter, editor and
Opinion -
page columnist at the Ventura County Star, a daily
newspaper in Southern California.
It is also the
newspaper that weekly caries the op - ed /
opinion column of George Monbiot (scourge of the climate sceptics / sceptics, and â constant guestâ in RCâ s
pages).
He compared the output of his 10 - person publication (which includes a print edition, a Web site with daily content, a blog with 15 to 20 items each day and a video operation) with that of his 27 - person L.A Times «
Opinion» division that created just two
pages each day in the
newspaper, the majority of which was written by others and read by no one, he says.
It also refers to the
opinions expressed in the editorial
pages of a
newspaper, either by the staff or readers who contribute through letters or columns.
In addition to his scholarly writing, Professor Lubet's humor and
opinion pieces have appeared frequently on the op - ed
pages of
newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Dallas Morning News, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Detroit Free Press, and many others, as well as in the online journals Slate and Salon.
I note, even in the past fortnight, that some of the far right commentators who seem to dominate the
opinion pages of our
newspapers have presented this issue as about anything that has ever happened in Australia since colonisation, or as providing a shield against any child being removed from circumstances of neglect or abuse, into the future.
Her work has appeared in the NY Times
Opinion Page, Singapore American
Newspaper, Adoption Today magazine, ATN» s Therapeutic Parenting Journal, and the anthologies From Home to Homeland; Our Very Own — Stories Celebrating Adoptive Families.