Wanted: Editorial writer for CDN

If you’re one of the 600 or so people who read Cebu Daily News, you might have, at some point before you totally lost interest, wondered: Why is there hardly, if ever, any editorial?

In place of an editorial, CDN instead rehashes editorials from other papers, websites or blogs, or worse, letters and statements from cause-oriented groups, NGO’s and other interest groups.

An editorial defines what a paper is, where it stands, and where it is going. No self-respecting paper will miss the opportunity to do so, every day. How can a paper abdicate its soul?

Possible reasons:

1. CDN has editorialized its news pages (heck, even its photos) enough it doesn’t feel the need to have an editorial.
2. Editors are too busy mangling stories of reporters.
3. Editors are too busy travelling with news sources to Taiwan.
4. Editors who can’t write aren’t allowed to (thank god; may be the same as no. 3), and editors who can, don’t.
5. Surveys show CDN loses its readership somewhere in the middle of page 2, so what’s the use?

A pity, really, but, hey, maybe CDN is just sparing us the agony.

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