By Robert S. Siegel
“Europeans have spent the last decade or longer trying to move away from the very kind of system we Americans may be on the verge of adopting,” according to Kyle Wingfield, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s new conservative columnist and soon to be ex-opinion writer for the European edition of the Wall Street Journal.
I look forward to more from Wingfield. I also hope the AJC will take advantage of the departure of editorial page editor Cynthia Tucker to upgrade its liberal commentary with one or more of the many talented liberal writers from around the U.S.
The AJC is one of this nation’s struggling newspapers. Atlanta and the nation would benefit from an editorial page with columnists that add original, creative, and fact-based thinking to the nation’s debates. The AJC could become a center of thought and the place for readers nationwide to go for quality commentary from multiple viewpoints. The market for quality newspaper commentary is wide open. I hope the AJC takes advantage of the opportunity the arrival of Wingfield and departure of Tucker provides. And I hope the opportunity proves profitable.
Welcome to Atlanta Kyle Wingfield.
