Letter to the Editor: Catts coverage undermines protest efforts

Dear Writer(s),

I honestly don’t want to be writing this e-mail. I’m never the type of person to complain about things, but this is ridiculous at this point.

Your job is to cover stories that matter on campus that will make a positive impact on our student body, and continuously your staff chooses stories to cover that are basically click bait.

Madeleine Clow | Courtesy

For instance, “A Little Bit of Social Justice and Trolling” (Sept. 26), is what has pushed me to write this e-mail.

There were women chanting, holding signs and putting themselves at risk for hours, through the rain, that day when the pro-lifers came. The women who were there were fighting for their own rights.

David Catts is a white cis-man who stole a sign, which actually undermines our mission for pro-choice.

It invalidates our fight because we are seen as criminals.

And to throw an entire half-page of, basically, this guy’s face, when the event was a protest for women’s rights, just baffles me.

There were women fighting, signs you could have highlighted, stories you could have shared.

Honestly, really bad reporting.

My high school paper was better than The Argonaut — that’s just a fact.

I look forward to hearing back from your staff on how you plan to address this in the future.

I am not the only reader that is upset and discredits The Argonaut.

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