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Show Widely read, yet misunderstood It is something to everybody, nothing to some people and everything to a few. It is the object of praise, the object of severe attacks and hatred. It is probably the best read page in the newspaper. It is the editorial page. And yet it is one of the least understood of any page in the paper also. In an attempt to rectify some erroneous concepts that have come to our attention and to make it clear just what an editorial page is, the staff of the Iron County Record have come up with a few comments. First, the editorial page, in its entirety, is not necessarily the opinion of the Record publisher or of the paper as a whole. Of course, letters are the opinion of the letter-writer, no one else. Also, and less understood, the cartoon on this page and the column, with someone's name on it, are not the opinion of the paper. They are the opinion of the person whose name it bears. In other words, the column, by Mike Cannon this week, is the opinion of Mike Cannon only. The cartoon to the right is the opinion and work of Craig Holyoak only, not the newspaper, not the editor and not the publisher. Which brings up the second point. Cartoons, like letters to the editor, are the work of the cartoonist as a private citizen. The fact that Holyoak works for the Cedar City Police Department has no bearing whatsoever on his cartoons. He does the work on his own time, and is not paid by the City for doing such. Anything different would be like saying that the showing of movies one may not like at the local theatre is being done by the Mayor, rather than by a private businessman. The only comments on the page which are the opinion of the newspaper are the unsigned, house editorials, such as this one. They are not the work of a single individual, but of the staff. They reflect the view of the paper as a whole. The editorial page can be and is a great source of public comment. We hope that this page in the Iron County Record can continue to be so. |