A reader asked a good question about how the eight-member editorial board
decides an issue if the vote is split. An even split is rare, but when it
happens we do any of the following:
* We keep debating, researching and bringing in experts/activists on both
sides until the vote changes. The strongest proponent on the winning side
writes the editorial, with some acknowledgement of concerns raised by other
board members. Everyone gets a chance to review the opinion before it is
published.
* We give more weight to the publisher’s and/or editor’s opinions. Publisher
Tim Kelly has the super-vote; but he prefers a collaborative effort.
* We run pro/con columns from individual members of the editorial board.
* We decide not to take a stand.
Vanessa Gallman
Editorial Page Editor
Interesting, because colleges teach that while editorial staffs are predominantly left-leaning, publishers are predominantly right-leaning. So that either suggests that the status quo does not apply to the Herald-Leader, or the one person on the editorial board with the ’super-vote’ has stacked his own editorial board against his own personal views.
All of the powers that be at the Herald-Leader are apparently left-leaning. Over the years it has become nothing more than a LIBERAL RAG!! I still get the weekend papers but I usually pull out the sports section and throw the rest in the trash…where is belongs.