Thursday, November 20, 2008
New Blood
Jorge Zepeda Patterson, one of the most prominent Mexican journalists alive, is the new editorial director of El Universal. The newspaper has a wide range of authors on its editorial page, which I imagine will remain unchanged. The paper itself has a slightly leftist slant comparable to that of The New York Times, and I'll be interested to see if Zepeda Patterson pushes the paper farther from the center.
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I think more important than general center-leftism is that JZP has been perhaps the sharpest and most interesting columnist in the Universal stable. Hopefully he'll make the page much more useful and illuminating. It would help to not feature R Aleman 43 times per week.
Hi JD, thanks for the comment. For the most part, I agree that JZP's columns are thoughtful, although every once in a while I feel like he wades into topics that he doesnt know as well (especially American politics), and writes about them with the same certainty with which he writes about Mexico.
I couldnt agree more about Aleman. I'd much rather see Ana María Salazar and Jorge Chabat and random one-time submissions more often than see him five times a week. Excelsior does the same thing with Leo Zuckerman and Jorge Fernández, among others. Sometimes they stretch one day of content into three days of columns. It's just impossible to avoid being derivative sometimes with such a heavy demand, I imagine.
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