We do not discriminate in reporting

It seems that more and more people are so quick to judge and criticize newspapers because of the content that is published.

A lot of times it has to do with the opinions, especially political opinions, of the editorial board of each newspaper.

There are also people who just dislike newspapers in general, and they find every reason they can to make a complaint.

Many people believe that The Daily Eastern News favors certain people and certain organizations. But there is a distinction to be made between news and opinions.

Our job as a news staff is to report objectively about the news and daily events of Eastern’s campus, and we work very hard to do so.

However, as members of the editorial board, our job is to meet each week and discuss our opinions on certain issues and what we think is important to take a stance on.

The content that is published as a staff editorial is a reflection of our opinions, and we have every right to share them.

Some people feel that we are more liberal when it comes to politics. The truth is, the majority of our editorial board may tend to agree with liberal opinions and views, but our job is to publish news about everyone.

We do not discriminate against anyone.

While we are not too impressed with our current president’s administration, he is our president, and that does not stop us from publishing news about what his administration is doing.

If we tend to disagree or judge his choices, or any candidate’s choices for that matter, that doesn’t mean that we can publish condescending news articles about them or that we can avoid writing about them at all. We have a commitment to being unbiased in our reporting, and we base our reporting on what is important and relevant to the Eastern community.

But, we do have every right to share our opinions about it on our editorial page.

We also make it one of our goals to feature the opinions of all political parties and stances, in order to be fair. We do not have many columnists coming to us who lean toward the right, but we welcome them to publish at The Daily Eastern News on any day.

There is nothing that we are doing wrong by publishing our opinions, but we do not avoid  publishing news about anyone, regardless of our opinions.