The pro-war Post: the paper's opinion columns turn hawkish on Iraq. (Media).(Washington Post)
American Prospect, The, April, 2003 by Gitlin, Todd
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WHAT'S THE ROLE OF AN OP-ED PAGE? Echo chamber for a newspaper's editorials? Ping-Pong table for both sides of the story? Or supplier of third, fourth, and nth sides and angles of the polyhedral truth? The reader might guess that this writer prefers a lively page that improves the debate, makes new arguments and surveys intelligent thought from all manner of viewpoints.
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If you're The Wall Street Journal, the answer is (excepting Al Hunt) "echo chamber." No surprise there. It's rather more odd that if you're The Washington Post, the disconcerting answer, at least during ...
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