Kinsley: Are editorial boards relevant?
Today, Mr. Kathryn Kase's editorial board put its anti-death penalty spin on a Monday Supreme Court decision. The editorial is typically lackluster, and concludes as follows:
Texas' full-throated resort to the death penalty demands that all procedures pertaining to this maximum punishment be applied with the utmost, unquestioned prosecutorial integrity and that those operations are reviewed by courts that can acknowledge what may be going on.
Courts that can acknowledge what may be going on? What does that even mean? The writing seems less than ideal.
Fortunately, local attorney and blogger William Dyer has dissected the case in a more thoughtful and analytical fashion on his blog. His conclusion is particularly strong. Perhaps even ideal!
This latest instance of a blogger upstaging the high and mighty Chronicle editorial board brings to mind a story in the New York Times about Michael Kinsley's efforts to shake up the LA Times editorial pages in his role as opinion page editor:
"Michael does like to ask questions, such as, 'In today's world, what is the continuing relevance of a newspaper editorial board?' "
Mr. Kinsley, who earned a reputation as an iconoclastic editor at Harpers, The New Republic and Slate, seems determined to answer that question by upending the established notion of the newspaper editorial.
The entire New York Times story is worth reading. Kinsley does seem determined to bring his opinion pages into the internet age.
And one rather suspects that he doesn't inflict stories about riding his bicycle on his readership.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 06/14/05 10:44 PM | Houston Chronicle | Print | Comments (3)
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