I'd strongly argue that having an editorial staff has proven to be a catastrophic error for newspapers since it poisons the culture of the newsroom, assigns a p

I'd strongly argue that having an editorial staff has proven to be a catastrophic error for newspapers since it poisons the culture of the newsroom, assigns a political brand to the company (which creates a flywheel where only people of the same ideology are attracted to and eventually accepted at the company whether it's Fox News or NYT), and blurs the lines between opinion pieces and reporting. Today at least, there is no justification for newspapers to have editorial staff at all. Having every media organization drop their editorial department would be an excellent first step in repairing our dysfunctional media.