Opinion
In the Oct. 17 Vanguard Vision, we wrote of the Grand Valley State Student Senate's inability to properly organize the "Battle of the Valleys" award presentation during the football game on Oct. 15. While we alluded to several possible reasons for this - the students knew they had lost before the game, for example - we did know for sure that the Senate had simply screwed up. By the look of things, it appears it has screwed up once more. »
The concept of a free press and, along with it, free speech is one that any newspaper will always fight for. The right to print any factual piece of information is easily one of the most important things this country and many others around the world provide. Does this right broil over to other sections of the media, such as political cartoons? Yes. But often, the greatest rights are those that require the most responsibility. The case of several European newspapers printing cartoons featuring the caricatures of the Muslim prophet Muhammad has brought that responsibility to the international community's attention. »
The local news media have had nearly forty years to perfect their coverage of manufacturing plant closings. Yet their coverage of the latest Ford announcement - the company will be slashing its operations in Wixom - suggests that they have learned little. »
A recent WNEM-TV5 investigation yielded startling evidence about the indoor play places of several local fast food restaurants including McDonald's, Burger King and Chuck-E-Cheese. With the help of several SVSU biology students armed with sophisticated, state-of-the-art cotton swabs, WNEM infiltrated the perimeters of several high security indoor jungle gyms to test for icky germs. Their findings: There were indeed icky germs present on much of the equipment they tested. My scientific analysis: »
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