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- LETTERS, Page 7Editorial Judgments
-
- We've received more than 3,400 identically worded postcards
- referring to this quote in the Wall Street Journal from TIME
- senior editor Charles Alexander: "On this issue (the
- environment) we have crossed the boundary from news reporting
- to advocacy." The postcards said, "Tell your readers about
- this."
-
- We are happy to. In all our coverage we try to be balanced
- and fair in our presentation of the facts and in reporting the
- range of differing views on the issues posed by the facts. But
- from the beginning of TIME over 66 years ago, we have also
- undertaken -- and made no secret of it -- to add our own
- judgments on subjects that truly mattered, from civil rights to
- arms control. We do not believe this will be news to our regular
- readers. Indeed, because they so often eloquently agree or
- disagree with us in these columns, it may be part of the reason
- they value TIME. We hope so, because we believe considered
- journalistic judgments are an important contribution to an
- informed society. And, yes, our stand on the planet is that we
- support its survival.
-