In May of 2011, the paper got on a high horse in its news coverage and editorial page, taking Scholastic to task for distributing educational material that provided mostly one side of the story of coal.
Its claim to editorial integrity is patchy, but it provides the biggest outlet from which material that embarrasses the authorities is sure to reach a wide audience.
The results appear unlikely to resolve the ongoing controversy over the value, or lack of value, of this procedure, but, as an accompanying editorial states, both advocates and critics of PFO closure will find source material for their arguments in these papers.