The Pompous Editorialist

“There is a little Mussolini in every editorial writer. Pompous, meddlesome, pretentious, a figure of fun to everyone but himself … issuing grandiose orders that have no effect on anything at all … to which an ungrateful nation will reply, ‘Oh, knock it off.’”

—Meg Greenfield (1930-1999), Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer and editorial page editor, in Matt Schudel, “Fred Hiatt, Washington Post editorial page editor, dies at 66,” The Washington Post, Dec. 6, 2021. 

• Editorial Comment: Goose-stepping around the newsroom. . . Good times.

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Edward C. Pease, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Head Emeritus
Department of Journalism & Communication
Utah State University
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