A newspaper's job is to objectively report the news,
however, the editorial page is the only place where an opinion is supposed
to be okay (as you know, many journalists do not follow this rule and
examples of bias can always be found in supposed news articles...but I
digress).
For your editorial, I suggest you choose a
specific event in which the United States is curently involved in the affairs of other
countries and then express your opinon about it. You should research your topic so that
you can give supporting evidence because even though an editorial is an opinion, it must
be supported by facts.
Some suggestions? The war in Iraq or
Afghanistan; U.S. involvement in the crisis in Sudan; the U.S. involvement in the
current situation between North and South Korea (North Korea supposedly sunk a South
Korean submarine and the U.S. Navy is patrolling the area right now...I know this
because my son is a naval aviator on that ship!). Or, how about the U.S. involvement in
the crisis in the Middle East? Or, what about the U.S. involvement in the Mexican drug
wars? This international event affects the United States, so we have good reason to care
about what happens there. Right now, it is unsafe to travel to Mexico. There is a lot of
information available about this.
If you do an online
search of "U.S. international relations" you will find some other topics that might be
of interest to you.
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