[2b2k] Editorials and echo chambers

From a New Yorker article (April 9, 2012) by Adam Gopnick on Camus:

Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostely not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing…Not “Say this!” but “Sound this way!” is what the great editorialists teach.