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However, here I wish to register an objection to the very recent unseemly, inexplicable collapse of the historic editorial and op-ed pages that are arguably the most significant two pages in all of our country’s mainstream journalism. The implosion of these pages started some months ago when I noticed that op-eds were displacing the previously sacrosanct space for the daily editorials. From the usual three editorials taking up the left half of the page , emerged op-eds such as the tepid exchanges between professed “liberal” Gail Collins and “conservative” hawk Bret Stephens . Now in addition to each having a weekly column, they engage in strained exchanges in the weekly opinion feature “The Conversation.
It keeps getting worse. In the last week or so the former editorial space was taken up with a long demand for New York City to teach children how to swim. . The entire editorial page was recently an artistic portrayal of the headline “The Choices My Mother Could, and Couldn’t, Make.” . And just this August 3, 2022, another full-page article titled “Liz Cheney is Prepared to Lose Power, and It Shows” replaced editorials with a gigantic picture of the legislator’s face.
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