Today's Word—Agenda-Setting

The Responsible Editor:

“The newspaper editor, especially in a one-paper town, remains the single most influential determinant of what most people in the community learn about the world. Therefore his own world view—its breadth or narrowness, its humanity or meanness, its curiosity or apathy—will be reflected in people who depend on his paper, and will affect their ability to manage their own lives sensibly and effectively.”
—Charles W. Bailey, on stepping down as editor of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, 1983 (Thanks to alert WORDster Peter Watson)