Editorial Quotes

“If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.”

“Egotorial: An editorial in broadcasting or print media where the subject matter is secondary to the superficial, pretentious, antagonistic, or materialistic ego of the author.”

“Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they're arguing.”

“Very few writers thank their mothers for keen editorial insight”

“Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think not what you think.”

“Music is the one place in mass media where kids editorialize to kids.”

“The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.”

“...that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art.”

“Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.”