Why print only bad news on Iraq?
I am a rising sophomore at Northwestern High School. I read The Herald every morning, and I believe that the local coverage that The Herald provides is excellent. The sports section is also very well done. The coverage of Iraq, though, is very one-sided. It seems to me that the articles chosen to be published are all used to make the war in Iraq into a completely bad thing. They are also used to try to pressure the government into withdrawing from Iraq. I understand that pretty much every media source in the country uses their business to voice their opinion on political issues. I believe that although the articles that are published are true, they are all about the negative aspects of the war. Very few of the articles have anything positive. This is where it becomes biased. When only the negative articles are presented, the paper shows only one side of the war. The positive articles (rarely even in the paper) are put in the “in brief” section and are only a few sentences long. Regardl
