Letter to the editor:

Rachel Keller

By:

Posted: 2/5/10

This is a response to the Facebook group "LSC Students supporting objective reporting in The Critic" (hereon referred to as LSCSSORITC) that was created in response to an article that (though never specifically named) offended students enough for them to call it a "badly written human interest [piece] [with] thinly disguised references to actual members of our community."

I see that the members of LSCSSORITC are upset that a person shared her opinions in a piece that was published on the Opinions page of the Critic. I agree! I am outraged! How dare a person share his or her opinions on a page so clearly labeled for opinions. I mean what is this world coming to? Who cares that everyday every news station in America (possibly in the world) slanders and misrepresents the news - let's get really mad that someone had the audacity to call out behaviors she (or he) sees as inappropriate on this college campus. The ways people act have no affect on campus life, so obviously LSCSSORITC is completely justified in saying that they would rather read articles "relevant to campus life."

I mean, this group is all about objective reporting which is what everyone should be practicing. By defnititon, to be objective is to be "not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased" according to dictionary.com. Yeah, our opinion page has no room for personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice. We should really be publishing our horoscopes or something because that is what I as a college student really need to learn about.

Who CARES about that silly first amendment? If something is biased and personally based it does not belong on the opinion page of a newspaper. They should just, like, blog or something. Better yet, make a Facebook group about it.

Sincerely,

Rachel Keller

Concerned LSC Citizen