Every newspaper suffers corrections. No matter how thorough the editing flawed information is going to find its way into print.
With student body elections less than a week away DTH campaign coverage is kicking into high gear. Which means invariably that criticism of DTH campaign coverage will be kicking into high gear.
The hardest part of running a student newspaper is that students leave. No matter how dedicated no matter how talented every staff member at The Daily Tar Heel is gone after four or five years. Many are gone far sooner than that.
""UNC plans for cuts to funding."" That was a Daily Tar Heel headline on March 22" 2002. But it could just as easily have been last week. After several years of a booming state economy and generous funding increases for higher education" lean times are back.
As I write the familiar cadence of Barack Obama's voice is echoing through downtown Raleigh. The rally in Halifax Square is so loud you can hear it inside my office building several blocks away. And somewhere down there amid the throng is a Daily Tar Heel reporter.
As I write the familiar cadence of Barack Obama's voice is echoing through downtown Raleigh. The rally in Halifax Square is so loud you can hear it inside my office building several blocks away. And somewhere down there amid the throng is a Daily Tar Heel reporter.
Like any halfway decent media critic I'm obliged to call out this esteemed paper for its accomplishments as well as its shortcomings. And The Daily Tar Heel deserves some accolades for its coverage so far of the Halloween debate. When the paper first reported plans to curtail this year's Halloween festivities the front-page article included some rather blunt statements from Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy.
