Word: opinionizing
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...Broadly, opinion pieces fall into two categories: unsigned “staff editorials” that appear on the upper left-hand side of the editorial page each day, and signed op-eds, comments, columns, letters, and artwork that appear elsewhere. As an editorial board, we have two primary tasks: First, we comprise the bulk of the Crimson editors who debate the content of staff editorials (see more on staff editorials below), and second, we solicit and edit signed content...
...Crimson editors are welcome to share their views when we decide what the content of staff editorials should be. Three times a week, the editorial board co-chairs hold meetings open to all Crimson editors, where, as a group, we decide which topics to write about and what opinions we will publish on those topics. After discussion, a vote is taken, and if a simple majority of the editors present agree on a particular opinion, we will write a staff editorial on it. (We strive, however, to reach a near-consensus opinion among all those present, and we usually succeed...
From time to time, the editorial page will publish a dissenting opinion to a staff editorial, especially when the feelings among those at editorial board meetings are closely divided. These “dissents” are short pieces signed by a few Crimson editors that offer a viewpoint substantially different from that expressed in the corresponding staff editorial. They are only published in response to staff editorials deemed by the editorial chairs to be of significant importance and only when the dissent offered is sufficiently original and thought-provoking...
...view. On occasion, however, the “Staff” may decide to reverse its position on a particular issue, usually because new evidence or a new argument has arisen. Decisions to reverse a standing position, however, are not arrived at lightly, and overturning a previous staff opinion requires a two-thirds vote of editors present, as well as the consent of the editorial chairs...
...addition to our unsigned staff editorials, we publish several types of signed opinion pieces, including comments, columns, op-eds, and various types of art, including editorial cartoons. Oftentimes these pieces are written by Crimson editors, though often other members of the Harvard community, or other authors, write as well...