Patterico's Pontifications

1/24/2006

Matt Welch Joins L.A. Times

Filed under: Dog Trainer — Patterico @ 6:32 am



Congratulations to Matt Welch on his new position as assistant opinion editor for the L.A. Times.

I’ve always thought that the paper’s opinion pages have much to recommend them. Sure . . . on the left side, the editorials are often vacuous, and the paper has a habit of printing letters to the editor with factual errors that benefit the left. But on the right side of the page, where the op-eds live, the paper does a fair job of getting other viewpoints out.

Still, Welch’s presence can’t help but be an improvement for the paper. I’m looking forward to seeing the effect he has.

3 Responses to “Matt Welch Joins L.A. Times”

  1. Let’s hope for the best, and keep an open mind, but recall Matt Welch has a jones for sticking it to Conservatives.

    But, that too can be a valid point of view if he’s at least accurate, so I say his presence on the Opinion pages will most likely result in an actual improvement of sorts at the LAT.

    Black Jack (d8da01)

  2. So far, Mr Welch isn’t impressing me, based on this article .

    I am really disappointed to see anti military personnel rants published. This particular article seems so far out of the mainstream that I cannot see how it would be considered for publication. I am particularly incensed by the way it lumps Iraq with Afghanistan and the rest of the war on terror, and he doesn’t want to be thankful to those that are protecting him from an Islamic dictatorship.

    Greg (e5d4c1)

  3. The funny thing is that the Los Angeles Times thinks Matt Welch is a conservative.

    Justice Frankfurter (2dcd84)


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