Journalistic news media tend to present themselves as objective entities within out democratic society that ensure that citizens remain informed of important public issues and events, however, also as guardians who keep public officials honest. Ideals integrity, objectivity, and truthfulness are often cited as standards that govern how journalists, with respect to news stories, do their job. However, editorials are a whole different story. There is no claim of fairness or impartiality here. Instead of a reporting of substantiated facts, figures, and events, editorials are predominantly the opinions of writers (with the political slant of the publisher determining much of the content of what appears in editorial pages). This is not to say that editorials have no positive qualities. Editorials are often entertaining, and many individuals tend to favour a particular editorialist or editorial page that reflects their own beliefs, principles, etc. However, editorials are often characterized by the presentation of biased, opinionated, and speculative tirades that lead to many errors in logic and sound reasoning. In the course of this paper, I shall use a recent editorial by George Will in the Washington Post as an instance to analyze. The overall conclusion of the Will's editorial is two-fold. Firstly, Will concludes that the parents of students at Bedford Central were silly to attempt to resolve what they perceived as problematic state of affairs through litigation (in both the extent of what they viewed as problematic, and the route taken to resolve the state of affair). Secondly, Will concludes that the legal decision...
On Will's view, it was these respective silly acts that led to an overall silly state of affairs.
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