Mike Pesca

Our media has been partisan much longer than it has been nonpartisan.

OK, we had a brief window between World War Two and 9-11 where we had basically a media that attempted to to not.

affiliate with a party.

But before that, and frankly, after, it's actually been par for the course that media sort of identified with a movement.

Right.

It's sort of one of these things that I tell journalism schools all the time.

Hey, guys, this is not new, right?

The Waterbury Republican, the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, the Tallahassee Democrat, you brought up Rochester, is another one.

What's wrong with having two editorial pages?

Wouldn't it have been great?

Wouldn't it be great if the New York Times had, you know, basically had a conservative editorial, essentially section and a liberal editorial section and frankly allowed them to be side by side?

Yeah.

Back in the 90s, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, when they had to do their joint operating agreement, on Sundays printed one newspaper.

And their editorial page on the left was the Atlanta Constitution, and on the right was the Atlanta Journal.

Yeah, it's good.

Why is that not like...

That's the world I lived in.

My father was a conservative who always wanted to know what the liberals were saying.

So he subscribed to National Review and New Republic.

Yeah.