Category: Letters from the Editors Column

Letters from the Editors Column

The Forest or the Trees: the Journalist’s Dilemma

Certainly, it is important that we have journalists covering big stories like wars, presidential elections, parliamentary affairs, and other national-level issues over local town halls, community center events, and yes – student politics. It’s natural to be attracted to the big picture rather than get bogged down with the details, so that we don’t “miss the forest for the trees”, as they say.