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Editor:
We are writing regarding an issue that we think should be dealt with in all fairness to the students of this university. We write to you regarding the fact that the majority of the Arizona Daily Wildcat is plagued with nothing but liberal rhetoric and partisan reporting. Over the last two years or so this has become blatantly apparent to us and other students here at the UA. Things ranging from strongly promoting Eddie Basha for governor in 1994 and reporting nothing positive about Fife Symington, to more recent acts of liberalism such as showing a picture of two young girls smoking at a Bob Dole rally where the focus was to fight teen smoking and drug use.
We are not talking about placing these unjust articles and headlines in the editorial section of the paper, where they belong. What we are making reference to is the partisan reporting and headlines that occur in the other sections of the paper. It's very sad when the press feels that it's their obligation to input their own personal views or that of the paper. When our founding father's put the words "or of the press" in our Constitution, referring to the freedom of the press, we can assure you that it was on the premise that the press would be a bipartisan group who would do the public a service by reporting to them the events that occurred to preceding day. Don't get us wrong, our freedom of speech is something that we should never give up. However, reporters have a moral and societal obligation to do just that, report.
As a matter of fact, the Wildcat reporting has been so liberal that the other day one of our friends drew a hammer and sickle on a copy of the Wildcat in reference to the former Soviet Union and their communist beliefs. We've also heard such comments as "Yeah, when you pick up a copy of the Wildcat, the left side falls down," or one of our personal favorites "Have you picked up your copy of The Leftist Cat today?" The point we are trying to make is that we are not the only people who have this particular viewpoint. We are not asking you to change the reporting of the paper to conservative reporting by any means. All we are asking for is truthful, bipartisan reporting that forces the reader to think and form their own viewpoints.
Edwin H. Grant IV
finance juniorChris Fermoyle
finance juniorWalter Besocke
general business senior
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