To the Editor:
I would like to see the DP take a more balanced approach to positive and negative stories, especially on its front page.
I am disappointed to observe that the average DP front page hovers around conflict, difficulty and pain. It would be naive of me to expect an independent student newspaper to pretend we live in utopia, but as a reader I do observe that this publication has slipped toward the same easy equation that many U.S. news media have discovered: conflict equals attention.
No two person's realities are the same. Some individuals are far more affected by certain events than others in our community and in neighboring Philadelphia. This newspaper already knows that there are at least two sides to every specific story, but it should also remember there are also two sides to every day of news.
A newspaper read as exclusively as the DP on this campus has a profound effect on general feelings, such as any individual's faith in our community.
There is no reason to dwell solely on the negative, or only to view stories of conflict as superior in newsworthiness. A campus group's well-earned success almost always affects more readers than a murder trial -- but which story will undoubtedly make it to the front page?
Tal Raviv
Engineering sophomore
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