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Letter to the Editor:
Advocate resorts to gossip as news
MHCC Student
To the Editor:
The Advocate and its staff have access to an entire campus full of students available for interviews, 570 of whom voiced their choice in the recent elections, but on the front page this week we were treated to gossip bytes fresh from Facebook (FB.)
If The Advocate is going use Internet social sites as legitimate sources for news and quotations after the election, then maybe it should take a look at some things that were being slung around “the tubes” during the election.
After the presidential debate during campaign week, Bradley Best suggested through a status update that Pannell had cheated during the debate by being prepared for the questions and speaking well. I am a national medalist on the MHCC Forensics Team and was unaware that being a good speaker qualified as “cheating.” Then there was the FB “note” Best posted shortly afterward. In it, he stated that Pannell, through her lobbying actions in Salem, put the student government at jeopardy. Besides being completely incorrect, this statement is not just gossip — it’s libel.
If we’re going to get FB as news, then let’s at least get all sides. However, I personally would prefer that we kept biased, opinionated, buttercup yellow journalism where it belongs — on FOX.
Editors Note:
Bradley Best’s Facebook page was private during the ASG campaign and The Advocate did not have access to its content.