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Discuss “Executive Privilege”

Running a newspaper presents a number of interesting challenges. On a purely logistic level, a full issue has to be published every Monday. The Tartan has a staff approaching 100 students, so a strong and capable infrastructure is necessary to guarantee that their time is effectively used. We need to be ready for news to break at any time. As soon as the paper is published, we need to immediately begin planning for the next week?s issue.

Yet alongside all of these challenges there exist additional difficulties. One of these difficulties is being as objective and unbiased as possible in our coverage. Accusations of bias, of slant, and of distortion are serious charges to any journalist. While we all realize that you can?t please all the people...

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