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(02-29-2020 12:45 PM)BroncoPhilly Wrote:  Mainly as exhibited in the Western Herald. I started calling them on their never-ending GOP bashing and didn't let up. Finally, I exchanged emails with their managing editor and told them all I wanted was a little balance. I reminded them that Michigan voted for Donald Trump and that half of Michigan was Republican, as a public university they owed it to their readers to provide more balance. She-ostensibly-agreed and told me they would 'take actions' to provide more balance. She told me that, since ALL her current journalists were Liberal (she didn't explain how that happened) that she would ask the WMU Student Young Republicans to submit Opinion articles 'now and then' for balance. This was 3-4 years ago and I'm still waiting for even ONE article like that. She either outright lied to me just to get me off their backs or she lacked the sense of fairness to carry through with her promises.

And if you look at the current leadership of Western-Dr. Edward Montgomery-he was an active campaigner for Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and served in both their Administrations. With political credentials like that I hardly expect him to promote fairness to my side, as represented in the Herald or other institutions on campus. What was the selection board thinking by bringing in someone with such strong political affiliation with one party? Doesn't make sense to me, at all. None of our past Presidents had that involved a political background.

Western has started going in directions I don't support. Like I said, I communicated my thoughts directly to them and let them know my dissatisfaction, they weren't interested enough to change. So, I stopped donating. The only donation I made to WMU in over a decade was to the WMU Sunseeker Solar Cart team-and that was a directed donation only for them.

Being one-sided and then seeking financial support from an evenly divided state is pretty darn stupid in my view. You would think they'd take that into account? They haven't. In many cases, WMU has shot itself in the foot-or they would have made much more progress than they have.

Thank you for finally admitting what a complete and total loser you are. You have nothing better to do with your time than to whine and complain to the Herald staff about some perceived bias you think it has? No wonder you want WMU to eliminate 3/4 of its degree majors and focus only on STEP degrees. You hate anyone who doesn't agree with your narrow world view and doesn't do exactly what you want them to do.

That editor doesn't owe you anything in terms of a reply or any justification for how he or she is running his or her paper. She is probably 21 years old and is a STUDENT at our alma mater. She deserves to run her paper as she wants and to make mistakes without having some cranky loser alumni giving her 5hit because he has nothing to better to do.

You need to find some healthy hobbies. Stop embarrassing my alma mater you loser.