What's wrong with the editorial page? In Washington last week, 50 top editorial writers, at their first national conference, glumly agreed that a lot of things are wrong. But they all boil down to one fact: fewer & fewer people read it. As Ralph Coghlan, editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's once-famed editorial page, put it: "The editorial page has declined to an astonishing degree."
For a kind of shock treatment, the conference called in terrible-tempered H. L. Mencken, who used to be an editorial writer himself (the Baltimore Sun).*
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