Editorial pages are reserved for opinions

Editorial pages are unlike any other pages in the paper, because they are reserved for opinions. News appears on other pages, free from opinions, except those of news sources that may be quoted from time to time.

Reader’s opinions and the newspaper’s opinion both

appear on the editorial pages of both newspapers. We even label the page as the “Opinion Page.”

One editor wrote, “The front page is for the report of what others are doing. The editorial page is the report of what the editor thinks they should be doing.” An editorial is written by the editor and represents the newspaper’s stand or co...