Editorial is weeks overdue

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 Nearly four weeks after a massive earthquake hit Haiti, the editorial page of The Record of Woodland Park condemns "a vacuum of authority [that] is encouraging chaos and slowing the flow of supplies needed to prevent more deaths."

But this was evident weeks ago. Why did Editorial Page Editor Alfred P. Doblin finally turn away from preening in front of a mirror and focus on the humanitarian crisis in Haiti?

The editorial appears now, because the newspaper -- after much hesitation -- sent two staffers there, and several paragraphs on Page O-2 today are devoted to what they reported. Does The Record really care about Haiti or is it interested only in promoting its feeble news coverage?