Daily Lobo's biased articles suggest paper not independent

Editor,

I believe that the school should change the name of the newspaper. It has become increasingly prominent of the Democratic bias in every article in the paper, excluding the sports page. The new name for the paper should be the Daily Liberal. It is actually funny how the paper has tried to change the opinion of many students through persuasion and through very biased articles. I think that you guys should run an article titled "Barack Obama, where's the plan for change?" One quest I have gone onto lately is the quest to get a plan or agenda of how Obama wishes to change the government. In my quest on the Internet, I have found nothing as to state how he will change anything. His motto is he's going change everything, and the persistence that John McCain is just another President Bush. McCain is actually somewhat liberal but is considered a Republican due to his militaristic experience and views.

In the article, you should show a side-by-side comparison of activity and experience of both candidates. How many bills has Obama voted on? How many has McCain voted on? How many years did Obama spend in the military? How many years has McCain spent in the military? The only thing I am sick and tired of is reading "facts" about McCain in the Daily Lobo, because there have been many times when I could read in the Daily Lobo about a "fact" about McCain, then do my own research on WashingtonPost.com or NyTimes.com and realize the reported facts in those papers are very different from those in the Lobo.

My point in this whole letter is that we are an institution of learning. And in every institution, you will find teachers that will teach politics in a manner of no bias so the students can make their own decision as to what party they lean toward, so why can't our paper be independent? Your Web site says you're independent. All you have to do is read down the page and realize the paper is not independent. Although I could go on for hours about how Obama lacks the facts and agenda to even begin to think he can run a country, that is not my point. I will write another article if I see that this is published, because I would like some confidence that maybe our paper is independent, but as of right now, it's not.

Paul Aitken

UNM student