DI Editorial
I forgot to rant about the DI editorial sometime weeks ago, but here it is. Its only a little one.
DI Editorial Board,
I think you cleverly played out your little piece in the DI a few weeks ago. You chose the questions that we asked during the City Council and answered them. However, you conveniently did not debate or refute our points that effectively followed or in my case preceded. These points were the ones that eventually swayed the City Council...not our questions. Politically that was smart and keen, but it wasn't very honest. In fairness, you had an agenda to pursue and our stance was conflicting. So you tried to take us out with emotional tactics like this one:
If you are willing to play hardball, at least give yourselves the dignity to debate and confront the main points not the questions that were raised at the meeting.
I look forward to tomorrow's DI,
The Most Honorable
P.S. Honestly, I do not believe Kiyoshi was involved in this one. It was probably one of those beginner DI writers that mess up people's quotes.
DI Editorial Board,
I think you cleverly played out your little piece in the DI a few weeks ago. You chose the questions that we asked during the City Council and answered them. However, you conveniently did not debate or refute our points that effectively followed or in my case preceded. These points were the ones that eventually swayed the City Council...not our questions. Politically that was smart and keen, but it wasn't very honest. In fairness, you had an agenda to pursue and our stance was conflicting. So you tried to take us out with emotional tactics like this one:
We look forward to Danavi leading the call for a speed limit reduction after the next member of the campus community is hit by a speeding car.It did hurt to read the editorial and I did not expect the Daily Illini to fall in the footsteps of political hackery, snip out logical points, and forget the fact that we were representing our constituents and your readers; the students.
If you are willing to play hardball, at least give yourselves the dignity to debate and confront the main points not the questions that were raised at the meeting.
I look forward to tomorrow's DI,
The Most Honorable
P.S. Honestly, I do not believe Kiyoshi was involved in this one. It was probably one of those beginner DI writers that mess up people's quotes.
posted by Illinois Student Senate | 10:52 AM
1 Comments:
I believe that DI did not have an agenda, but it just disagreed with the outcome of the speed limit at the city council.
I feel that DI and ISS should not become one in the same since the news outlet should be able to print out balanced stories for the benefit of everyone and not feel pressure by anyone: not the UI administration, the Student Senate, or even MTD.
However the tactics that were displayed in the DI editorial were baseless since they challenged points/questions made by us at the City Council when we, in actuality, had those "challenges" answered in other parts of our speeches.
Otherwise, kudos for a truly independent newspaper!
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