I showed
them the opinion page of the newspaper and told students they were going to write a letter to the editor.
It is important to remember that climate science is not a public debate carried out on
the opinion pages of 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.