Across the country over the past couple weeks, too many editorial writers are leaving this profession we love to practice. They're either layoff victims or unwilling participants in budget-driven newsroom reassignments. On the National Conference of Editorial Writers' e-mail listserv -- the ongoing online chat that connects a skeptical and curmudgeonly editorialist community -- there is no consensus about whether to mourn or vent or question what's going on. So people are doing a little bit of everything, with a heavy dose of industry-bashing/Kevin Richert, Idaho Statesman. More here.

*How will you hang/Adam's Blog
*Strange juxtaposition for Jim Risch/IdaBlue
*If you let O'Reilly run wild/Randy Stapilus
*Idahoans may play role in solar moratorium on public lands/Rocky Barker

Question: How much influence do newspapers editorialists carry today?

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