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What Editorials Think
of Trump's Day One

the rundown

Jan 21, 2025 11:07 AM CST

What Editorials Think of Trump's Day One

Wall Street Journal suggests 'Trump II' is off to a better start than some feared

(Newser) - President Trump described an America in "decline" in his inaugural address on Monday and promised to set things right. A look at how Trump's message, along with his mass pardoning of Jan. 6 defendants, is being received in editorials:

Wall Street Journal: Trump "delivered a message of

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'Op-Ed' Loses
Its Place at Times

Apr 27, 2021 12:11 AM CDT

'Op-Ed' Loses Its Place at Times

Editor says the idea is to drop newspaper jargon, but there's another view

(Newser) - The "Op-Ed" label still makes geographic sense in the print edition of a newspaper, but it's lost in digital space. So after a half-century of defining the page of opinion pieces written by people who don't work for the New York Times by its proximity to the...

German
Women's
Mag Bans
Models

Oct 6, 2009 4:12 AM CDT

German Women's Mag Bans Models

'Whole industry is anorexic,' says fed-up editor

(Newser) - The most popular German women's magazine is banning professional models from its editorial pages. Brigitte will use only "real woman" from now on to illustrate its stories, declared its editor, who said he was "fed up" with having to retouch pictures of underweight models who bear no resemblance...

Ben Stein
Bitches About
Getting Fired
by the Times

Aug 10, 2009 4:25 PM CDT

Ben Stein Bitches About Getting Fired by the Times

(Newser) - Ben Stein is miffed about his summary expulsion from the New York Times’ Sunday business section, and he explains why in a lengthy piece for the American Spectator. Booted over a TV commercial he did for an online credit reporting service—not his first commercial, and not a subject he...

What Today
Means

OPINION Roundup

Jan 20, 2009 10:52 AM CST

What Today Means

Pundits take on magnitude of the moment

(Newser) - Barack Obama is the story today for editorial pages across the country. Here’s what the professional pundits are saying:

The excitement is feverish in Washington, writes Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian, a sense that this inauguration is special, that Obama will be magically transformed into “the embodiment

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Scribe to Papers: Stop Endorsing

OPINION

Jan 31, 2008 8:19 AM CST

Scribe to Papers: Stop Endorsing

Getting behind pair of opposites—ie, Obama and McCain—is 'schizophrenic'

(Newser) - Newspapers should stop endorsing candidates, Philadelphia Daily News blogger Will Bunch writes, because the practice makes editorial pages look disingenuous. Most papers have been stepping up with one nod to a Democrat and another to a Republican, he notes; what could be more ridiculous than supporting Barack Obama and John...