I have come to expect slanted news from the Daily, but this morning even I was surprised. The Daily has once again rustled up and pursued the story of their choosing. Sheesh.

Wednesday morning we were all greeted with a hearty “Yahoo! the Democrats WIN in Iowa! Good choosing!” from the front page of the Daily. In its wisdom, knowing that nothing Republican is worth printing, the Daily provided us pictures of the two WINNING candidates — Democrats — and a picture of the losing candidate — also a Democrat!

I thought it was pretty funny that in an attempt to be unbiased, you decided to pick a nice balance of the winning campaigners and the losing ones, and it was merely coincidental that they were all Democrats. I let that one slide.

However, Thursday’s paper was just too much! After saying on Nov. 6 that the Democrats were, as of press time, holding onto their lead — and realizing this morning that those gosh-awful Republicans got voted for — a nice little article, run off to the side, said “Republicans win control of Congress” and right in the middle of the front page was a picture of who else? Our old friend Tim Johnson! How appropriate!

Even in conceding victory to The Dark and Evil Force Behind All That is Harmful, you provided us with a picture of a random Democrat winning in South Dakota.

The phrases used to describe the Republicans were also pretty slanted: “handing President Bush bragging rights and two years to push through an agenda” (I think “evil agenda” might be better, don’t you?) and “Bush is eager to bulldoze objections by Senate Democrats.” This conclusion was made from Ari Fleischer’s statement that “we need to work together.”

Seems to me that the Daily would rather make up its own news, since “working together” just doesn’t seem like something it wants to see the two parties try to do. It’s much easier to hate a bulldozer, isn’t it?

I think I speak for everyone that enjoys objective journalism when I say that the Daily should either label this an opinion page, or move it off the front page.

Daniel Snodgrass

Junior

Computer Engineering