Robert Burns, call your office

Masthead is the periodical publication of the professional society of newspaper editorial writers. Masthead’s editor this year is Doug MacEachern, columnist and editorial writer at the Arizona Republic. MacEachern invited me to contribute a piece for the current Masthead issue’s symposium on how blogs are changing “opinion-framing,” and he kindly sent me a copy when it was published last month.
Among the several interesting columns in the symposium was one by Phil Boas, deputy editorial page editor at The Arizona Republic. His contribution to the symposium is headed “Bloggers: The light at the end of the newspaper