about basketball, professional basketball, golf, soccer, tennis, professional football, and different sports that maybe you would want to look for.
11. Education: The thing that a student favors the most is the education section. In
the education section you might be able to find out the overall average of students in a partucular school, and maybe even a couple of awards that a student won for
the school that they attend, or doing something that would help their school do better.
12. Weather: In a weather section, you can find the weather, where ever you may
need to know. 13.
Obituaries: In an obituary, you can find out about people who passed on recently,
and people think that their death should be mentioned to the community. When you would go to this section in a newspaper, you can most likely find a picture
about someone and a short biography. There are many sections in a newspaper. They all play an important role, and
when they act together, they make a newspaper.
2.2.3. Definition of Newspaper Editorial
Anwar 1991:98 states that “An editorial is an article expressing the opinion of the newspaper”, it is almost always unsigned, suggesting that the paper is not just
anything given by writer, believe this way. Editorial almost always goes on a distinct page away from news articles to help maintain the distinction between the two. The
editorial page often includes letter to the editor, which, are, of course, opinion pieces written by readers and the opinion pieces. These maybe editorial cartoons or columns.
According to Laid Low 1987:72 said that an editorial is a type of persuasive writing. Its writer tries to convince the reader to accept the point of view; they offer
sound arguments, backed up by fact and examples, to support that point of view. These views are expressed in editorials which appear on a special page of the
newspaper page. Type headlines for editorials include ones like these: 1.
Speed is essential 2.
On city council reform 3.
A universal dilemma
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Honenberg 1991: 77 states that usually the editorial page is a left-hand page and the facing page, the op-ed page, contains opinion articles from outside the paper. “op-
ed” is shorthand for “opposite the editorial page”, or it could be thought of as labeling what are often opposing views to that of the paper. At Stuyvesant High School, the
whole editorial section-editorial page, letters page and pages with signed editorial columns-was called op-ed because the staff liked the sound of the sound of the name
of section. Editorials almost always common upon an important issue. Perhaps they
complaint someone for doing his job well, or maybe they critic a government officials or a committee for poor work. Some newspaper print editorials in type slightly larger
than regular news print. Also editorials almost always measure more than one column wide usually two or three.
It is a common mistake to believe that columns and editorial is unlike news articles, do not need to be thoughtful and measured. The truth is writing a column or
editorials takes more reporting, not less, while the writing for a news article needs to continue until all reasonable sides can be adequately represented, the reporting for an
opinion piece needs until the writer can judge reasonably which side has the strongest case, that takes more work, not less.
There are few columns in a newspaper and one of them is editorial column or opinion editorial page. Idris 1987: 8-9 says that editorial has functioned as follows:
1. Editorial can be the social control.
2. Editorial can influence the public opinion.
3. Editorial can be the place of criticism.
Stein 1986:167-169 states that there are some basic rules of writing editorials: 1.
The New York Times recommends that op-eds run about 700 words. While papers may differ somewhat from that standard, it is suggested that op-eds be
somewhere near 650 to 750 words. As op-eds grow longer, the rest of them are
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edited or in other words “chopped” by the editor, increase significantly, double space the op-ed and make sure it is type written.
2. Make it timely, make it topical and local. Link it to some events that either just
happened or is about to happen. Has there been a relevant incident in their neighborhood, their city or their state? Keep this in mind. Any accident, episode
or issue that has to do with the underlying values of the flag campaign would qualify. These include respect, discipline law and order, free speech, service to
country and the promotion or lack of patriotism. 3.
The placement of an op-ed is significantly enhanced by the name of the author. For example, people who are considered “newsworthy” or leaders in the
community, have a better chance of having their op-eds published. 4.
Because each paper has specific criteria for publishing op-eds, “it is best to call the editorial page editor of a target newspaper to verify its policy, prior to
submitting their piece. We may wish to accompany their op-eds with a short not explaining who we are and why we’re writing the piece.
5. The piece can be either mailed, taxed, e-mailed or hand delivered to the
newspaper. In many of the larger dailies, email is often the best delivery vehicle. Those papers usually publish their e-mail address on their editorial pages. In the
smaller communities, delivering the piece in person is preferred and will sometimes allow the writer an opportunity to go face to face with the editorial
page editor. 6.
The important point to remember is so state our opinion in a way people will easily understand.
When writing opinion editorial, Siregar 1987:10-19 suggested considering the following outline:
1. Give a concise, but through, background on the conservation and reinvestment
act-remember, the majoring of people reading the story may not have understanding of the issue. Give a thoughtful, yet brief, background on the issue
before venturing into more details of the campaign. 2.
Embolden your message citing national trends that show support for revitalizing.
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3. Localize the story provide the reader with specific examples of well known local
park recreation centers, and wildlife refuges and give some examples of how dedicated conversation funding can benefit the community in the future.
4. Highlight the success of congestion “support of CARA- the opinion editorials
allows the writer to stress the importance of support for both local and national. 5.
Get the right individual to sign the opinion editorial-A local newspaper is more apt to allow a community leader to author an editorial.
Moreover, there are also some rules in writing editorials, as Gundur 1994:98 states the following:
a. Find a topic. What controversial events have been on the news nationality?
Locally? In your high school? b.
Research. Professional editorial writes known the value of this step. Computer assisted research, personal interviews, news articles on the subject; archives,
personal interview library documents and other sources should give writer an adequate background. It is virtually impossible to over research a topic,
especially if the topic is complicated or not generally understood by the reading public. Remember, there is an audience for a uniformed editorial.
c. Don’t always take the easy route. Consider the less popular stand.
Remember the axiom, which states the role of a newspaper, is “to comport the afflicted the word “An editorial” in newspaper workshop by Howard F. Decker
1972:16 said that an editorial is a column representing the views of the editors of newspaper. In an editorial, the editor gives their opinion a current topic. Opinions are
not supposed to appear in new stories but in editors, the editors have the right and responsibility to tell readers what they think. Editorial language is neutral. The
writer’s job is to give an opinion. This is done in a number of ways through adjective and adverbs, through sarcasm and satire and very direct criticism or praise. That is
one reason why editorials are fun to read. Finally, an editorial is the opinion of the newspaper or magazine has editorial as their attitude toward the existing on their
headlines. While the Jakarta post is an English newspaper published in Jakarta,
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which also has editorial column in each edition. The newspaper is published daily every morning.
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III. METHODOLOGY
