Good editorial, but if you're going to accuse a paper of being one-sided, I'd prefer you actually say what issue they have a preference for rather than just "liberal" or "conservative". Those words have just become toxic and promote "us vs them" politics where people shut off their brains and think about winning more than actual issues.

If you have something to say then awesome, if you're just saying "frick liberals" or "frick conservatives" then you don't have anything to say.

2 ...

Report Post

Posted by VictoryHill

Alabama

Member since Nov 2013

3216 posts

Posted on 11/30/16 at 7:36 am to Bmath

Being for a diversity of opinion doesn't mean that there can't be disagreement.

And it's not anecdotal. It's fact. For an op-ed in a campus newspaper, I'd think 2 recent examples of hardcore liberalism is enough. He's speaking to the students who read the paper daily and know this. The case is already built for students who read the paper. He's just pointing out the obvious...finally.

Here are your TDR politics/opinion columnists. Find me a conservative article.

Clarke Perkins

Brianna Rhymes

Jordan Marcell

Lynne Bunch

Ryan Thaxton

John Harp

Myia Hambrick

This post was edited on 11/30/16 at 7:53 am

0 ...

Report Post

Posted by VictoryHill

Alabama

Member since Nov 2013

3216 posts

Posted on 11/30/16 at 7:48 am to LucasP

I didn't get the impression that the article said either of those things, just that both opinions deserve merit in the paper.

0 ...

Report Post

Posted by EvrybodysAllAmerican

Member since Apr 2013

11267 posts

Posted on 11/30/16 at 8:09 am to VictoryHill

What ever happened to the Tiger Weekly? That one was more conservative and all around better than the Reveille.

2 ...

Report Post

Posted by foreverLSU

Member since Mar 2006

17060 posts

Posted on 11/30/16 at 8:28 am to VictoryHill

quote:
Further, the term “uneducated” being used for polling purposes as well as in Ms. Nair’s column is synonymous with not holding a degree. Being an undergraduate college student, Ms. Nair is a degree seeker and not a degree holder.

As such, she would fall into the condemned “uneducated” category of voters herself. She does not get a pass from that term, and if she considers herself educated, then she must also consider her peers who voted for Trump in LSU’s mock election - and likely the general election - educated as well.

1 ...

Report Post

Posted by Tigereye10005

New York, NY

Member since Sep 2016

1592 posts

Posted on 11/30/16 at 8:42 am to Bmath

quote:
He cites two pieces to show how the paper is left leaning, while going on about lack of empirical evidence for an opinion held about voters in the recent election. I hate to break it to you, but his sample size makes his basis feel a bit annecdotal.

I think the reason for only a few examples is simply that this is an opinion piece in a school newspaper and it can't be that long. I'm not an LSU student anymore, so I don't regularly read the Reveille; however, I scrolled through the rest of the "Opinion" section on the site and every other piece is left leaning. The overall point of this Op Ed was to say that, in a school of over 25,000 students, the paper could and should do a better job of representing multiple schools of thought and not just drive one agenda. I think it is a solid point and something that the Reveille should consider. When any paper begins only pushing one agenda (whether it's right or left or otherwise) it loses credibility with readers.

0 ...

Report Post

Posted by GRTiger