Vulcan editorial linked on Azusa website, does it matter to you?
The city of Azusa's website posted a link to the Tribune's editorial on the Vulcan Materials Co's Azusa Rock Quarry mining proposal decision.
This, to my recollection, is the first time the city has ever linked to a story written by this newspaper regarding the subject (the city of Duarte, on the other hand, has links to nearly every story written on the subject).
Being that the council passed the proposal and that the editorial is mostly in favor of the plan, it doesn't seem coincidental that the city posted the link on its homepage.
This got me thinking. How important are newspaper editorial's in formalizing your opinions on an issue?
All newspapers write them, politicians often use them in campaigns, and major newspapers like the New York Times can cause considerable controversy or conversation with its editorials.
Do editorials affect your opinions? Do you read newspaper editorials or take them seriously?
Note: Reporters, such as myself, don't write newspaper editorials and have no input on what they favor/disfavor, and we wouldn't want to have any. The opinions expressed in editorials are those of the paper's editorial board.
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SGV Tribune editorials have only a negative effect on my decision making. Based on the known biases of the editorial board (especially their tendency to write glowing editorials about companies and individuals that pay for large advertising spreads in the paper--Think Roski, Vulcan, and the Upper San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority Board), if I don't already have a formed opinion, I use the editorial to tell me what NOT to do.