While I don't read editorials, and like I have said before, I have hard time enforcing my opinion where it may not be warranted, the talk by Mary Connolly to our WRT class, shed a new light on the animal they call editorial.
Editorials are meant to make a difference.
While news stories have to be "newsy" and 100% unbiased, the true opinions of the paper and the community can be brought to light through editorials. Many editorial writers receive and filter through letters from the readers, which gives them a heads up on how the community is feeling. They, unlike news writers, have the opportunity to share this in a credible and well-researched way.
So while I was under the impression that an editorial, the short stories tucked away with the phone card ads accompanied by a thumbnail picture of the author, was simply an unimportant spouting of someone's personal opinion, I think that today I have been proven wrong.
And that perhaps through beginning to write these editorials my own previous opinion will be even further proven wrong.
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