So we need a big horn to be heard. Historically, editorials have always been small, compared to everything else of any significance in a newspaper. Almost any news story of consequence is longer than an editorial. Today, the editorialist s place in the world is smaller than ever. Not necessarily because no one cares anymore about the opinions of editorialists, but because most people have so little time to read editorials or anything else.
Time is the great competitive arena today for anyone who writes.
The marketplace of information, work and leisure offers people so many other attractive ways they could be spending their precious 24-hour allotment. All this is by way of suggesting that I think too many editorial pages today are on the wrong track. I suspect that many readers would welcome an editorial voice with a strong point of view, strongly stated. That is because so much of the world of information now is trying to be largely non-judgmental. Newspapers, mindful of diverse constituencies, are careful not to offend.