TSL has recently had serious charges leveled against them. In a scathing letter to the editor, they were called jealous, biased and irrelevant, and on the surface, accusations seemed fair. In TSL’s coverage of the Claremont Independent (CI), critics noted that they appeared to hold a view that the CI’s conservative viewpoints were enabled by outside politics. Journalism is no stranger to ideological coverage, but did TSL go too far?
However, Parker DeVore PZ ‘27 notes that a condemnation of legible institutional perspectives, is only arguable if we understand news to be apolitical. Yet this view is incompatible with the humanity of journalism, and presented by a critic who is helplessly opinionated themselves.
“TSL’s mission is to ‘provide unbiased, factual reporting and a platform for students, faculty and staff to engage in,’” writes DeVore. “However, simultaneously TSL says it ‘serves as a forum for discussion that showcases the wide array of opinions.’ Impartiality and so called straight news is not TSL’s bread and butter, nor is it the CI’s. Instead, both outlets, and news outlets in general seek to emphasize pluralism in their own distinct ways.”
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Words by Parker DeVore | Graphic by: Nergis Alboshebah
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