Editing Op-ed (section)

== Culture ==
With the development and availability of radio and television broadcasting as major information outlets, [[Stakeholder (corporate)|stakeholders]] and [[print journalism]] workers sought to increase or maintain their audience and relevance.<ref name=":1" /> Major newspapers such as [[The New York Times]] and [[The Washington Post]] began including more opinionated journalism, adding more columns, and increasing the extent of their opinion pages to drive public participation and readership.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Not just "elected officials and policy experts": Top editors are trying to refocus the opinion pages on regular people |url=https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/04/not-just-elected-officials-and-policy-experts-top-editors-are-trying-to-refocus-the-opinion-pages-on-regular-people/ |access-date=2024-11-10 |website=Nieman Lab}}</ref>

This was exacerbated by the period, as world events like [[World War I|WWI]], [[World War II|WWII]], [[Vietnam War|the Vietnam War]], the [[Korean War]], and major cultural changes began to make the public restless. Editors wanted to keep up readership as newspapers began to go out of business; they also needed to find new ways to compete with the versatility of [[Television|TV]] and [[radio]], which started to become commonplace in people’s homes.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Lang |first1=Kurt |title=Ordeal Before Television The Kennedy-Nixon Debates |date=2018-04-24 |work=Television and Politics |pages=97–122 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351306089-4 |access-date=2024-11-10 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-30608-9 |last2=Lang |first2=Gladys Engel|doi=10.4324/9781351306089-4 }}</ref> On the other hand, the general public wanted to have multiple points of view, as this time was also marked by a wave of [[liberalism]], including the fight for [[gender equality]] and the [[civil rights movement]].