Editorials for Dummies

Here’s a Chronicle headline on Page One of today’s paper: Bells ring out for 12 rescued miners: “They’re alive!” shout relatives, hours after one worker is found dead by searchers. It appears the story in

The Chronicle is hailing a Texas Supreme Court decision dismissing a libel suit brought against the newspaper by former Smith County District Attorney Jack Skeen. The court found that Skeen had not demonstrated that Chronicle

“In the aftermath of Katrina,” the same editorial board that has faulted the federal government for its response to the hurricane nonetheless thinks that the federal government needs to subsidize hurricane-related insurance: [Allstate President Thomas]