Since no editorial rationale accompanies the anthology, one can only guess at the collective motive for including famous names like Ma Rainey, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Bessie Smith, Oscar Hammerstein II, Lorenz Hart, Ira Gershwin, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Frank Loesser and Lightnin' Hopkins.
In this editorial, we provide our rationale for undertaking this policy, give examples of our positive experiences to date, and encourage others to open up the normally opaque publication process.
This editorial begins to articulate the rationale for such a community by exploring two important questions.
This action-oriented perspective was expressed as follows in a 2007 editorial: 'The correct question is: Is there a rationale for withholding critical care resources from critically ill patients outside the intensive care unit?
"I think there's something there," says Eric Hunter of the Emory Vaccine Center in Atlanta, one of 22 scientists who argued in a 2004 editorial in Science that the trial lacked a proper rationale and was a waste of money.
C1 Business Digest C2 EDITORIAL A12-13 EdiTony Blairony Blair's summit meeting; the terrorist's rationale; Eleanor Randolph on carnivorous dragonflies.
In late June, in an issue of The New Republic devoted to answering the question "Were We Wrong?" an editorial acknowledged that "the central assumption underlying this magazine's strategic rationale for war now appears to have been wrong".
It was especially noteworthy given that the paper's editorial board –- which helped promote the Bush administration's bogus rationale for invading Iraq -– was silent on last Tuesday's 10th anniversary of the start of the conflict.
"The rationale for the Newspaper Preservation Act was maintaining two distinct editorial voices," with the idea that was a public benefit, said Rick Edmonds, a media business analyst at the Poynter Institute, a journalism training center in St .Petersburg, Fla.
In their essay on editorial policy, Matthew and Arlyn Bruccoli, the editors of "O Lost," write, "the rationale for this edition is to establish the text of 'O Lost' that should have been published in 1929 by Charles Scribner's Sons......
(front page, Sept. 9) and "Torture Is a Crime, Not a Secret" (editorial, Sept. 9): It is ironic that national security is invoked as the rationale for blocking legal cases about torture when in fact the opposite is true.
