Editor,
I think that you are the worst editor that I have ever seen editing the Daily Lobo in my four years at UNM and many years reading it during high school.
I do not want you to take this as a personal attack, rather as a constructive (hopefully) critique of your time as editor of our university newspaper. You do not print enough articles written by UNM students, you print too many syndicated articles such as U-Wire or Knight-Ridder and you discredit the liberal/leftist side of politics with your one-sided support thereof.
I have submitted no fewer than six letters to the editor this semester. In past semesters, I have had a good interaction with the Daily Lobo, both submitting my thoughts and reading other UNM students' thoughts. Unfortunately, you have not published a single one of my letters. I would not take offense at this if the Lobo were simply flooded with other student submissions since I am obviously not UNM's premiere letter to the editor writer. However, what upsets me is that the absence of my letters is filled by either syndicated columns, notices from various departments such as ASUNM, parking disservices or your editorials.
On the other hand you seem to have no problem filling UNM's Daily Lobo with plenty of letters from outside sources (mostly leftist). I would have no problem if you were doing this to fill the absence of UNM reader submissions, but this is obviously not the case since I don't get my letters published and neither do people I know. I can see very well why you may now have a problem getting reader submissions -- it's because we stopped submitting because you just don't seem to care what we do when U-Wire is so darn cool. Which brings me to my last point: your politics cloud the Daily Lobo to the point that it is more of your personal propaganda medium than a freely controlled university newspaper. I support the left side of politics, I am a socialist, I am anti-Republican in its current form, I do not support unbridled globalization or illogical wars on terrorism, but I feel that your favoritism to this point of view brings all leftist politics into disrepute. Not only are you denying Republicans, right-wing conservatives and fascists their voices, you are arousing support and sympathy for all things right wing by obviously discriminating against them and denying their voice. Basically, I want the Lobo to be the voice of UNM. I want to see the writings of the people with whom I disagree, and then have them see what I have to say in response.
In short, I want the Daily Lobo to be a bit more like it always was before this year. Please take my words to heart.
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Adam Collingsworth
UNM undergraduate
