Word: opinionizing
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Three times a week, the editorial board co-chairs hold meetings open to all members of the Crimson, where, as a group, we decide which topics to write about and what opinions we will publish on those topics. The editorial chairs, as well as The Crimson’s president, have the final say on all published staff opinion. Keep in mind, however, that no Crimson editor who has written a news story on an issue may discuss, vote on, or write staff editorials on that subject—and vice versa...
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 when the dissent offered is sufficiently original and thought-provoking...
...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. Often times these pieces are written by Crimson editors, though often other members of the Harvard community, or other authors, write as well...
...meant to argue, expose, or discuss a particular opinion in some depth. Op-eds may not explicitly respond to pieces that have already appeared in The Crimson, but often they tackle the same subjects that recent op-eds have dealt with. In considering which op-eds to publish, in addition to originality, we also look for a strong argument, timeliness, clarity of writing, and cleverness...
...still possible to divide the news calendar into BF and AF-Before Fox and After Fox. Much of what you see on TV news exists because of Fox, and not just the opinion shows. The graphics, the sound effects, the general tone of news is set by Fox. The zipper-the visual signature of the anxious too-much-information era-was first introduced by Fox on the morning of 9/11. First by moments, but in TV news, moments are everything. As with so many things, Fox was slightly quicker than its rivals to detect, and direct, the next crank...