I'm writing this letter in protest of the sheer bias The Spectrum has recently shown in regards to the coverage and feedback space given to the issue of the ongoing war against Iraq.
I have personally sent three feedback letters to your paper, and none were published. Since you are a student-funded publication that claims relevance to students' opinions and perspectives, and since I pay the fee that keeps this paper running, I consider it my legitimate right to be informed of the reasons behind declining from publishing my feedback, among others' I'm assuming. I demand that you clarify your criteria for publishing feedback from your readership, as you owe your continuity to the student population of this university, and thus you are in a position that makes you accountable for channeling through one given point of view not the other.
I have to say that one must feel disappointed with what seems to me minimal space given to anti-war views in your paper, which in my opinion reflects a biased, unbalanced and simplistic approach to an issue as critical as this war is. I believe that UB students have the right to be familiar with more than the popular and safe perspective your paper seems to have gleefully adopted.
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