Editor,
I want to express my frustration with the way you choose to "fairly and accurately" account the daily news. The job of any journalist is to strive for objectivity when reporting on daily events. I want to commend each of the reporters for doing this, but the editor-in-chief Iliana Lim¢n, who should know better, continually refuses to do so.
Her reporting is inaccurate and biased.
Take for example her story of the death of Kevin Johns due to binge drinking. Lim¢n reported that a UNM English teacher said, "They (the students at UNM) think they are invincible, but this should clearly illustrate to us that they're not."
When confronted with this inaccuracy by the instructor, Lim¢n didn't respond with an apology, nor did she admit she was at fault in reporting this story. She simply stated in one of her frequent editorial notes that, "The Daily Lobo staff has always strived to live up to the highest professional and ethical standards. The newspaper regrets the error in attribution mentioned in this letter to the editor, but stands by the remainder of the story."
Why do you continually hide behind a veil of ignorance when you are criticized or when it comes to admitting you are wrong?
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You are not living up to the highest professional and ethical standards. If this was the real world, you'd have been fired long ago for your inaccurate reporting.
I am frustrated with the way that Lim¢n uses the paper and her position as editor to further her political views to the student body. Nearly every day there is something new from Lim¢n, whether it is to tell the world she doesn't like Mary in a bikini or the death penalty. We don't care.
The student paper is supposed to be for students to express our views, not for the "objective" editor to express hers on behalf of the paper. Each time Lim¢n is held accountable for her mistakes or someone writes something that she doesn't like, she feels the necessity to add an "editor's note" because she always has to have the last word, no matter what the situation.
Case in point, the upcoming election.
Once again, Lim¢n feels the need to express her views on this matter because she doesn't like organized government (she said so in an editorial). She criticizes them for the job they are doing, but what about the job she is doing? I don't remember voting for her to be the editor of the paper, nor do I remember voting Lim¢n into the Senate to represent me.
Oh, wait, I didn't. I voted for the senators to represent me, not Lim¢n, and I will vote for what they pass because they are representing me. I am all for freedom of the press, but that right of freedom is not absolute, and when it is abused, like Lim¢n does day in and day out, it hurts the people instead of helping the people.
Pat Kellerman
UNM sophomore
