Reporting

Part of this reporting can be counted as news dealing with student affairs. When the newspaper attracts people to the performances of the student theatre group, in praising its excellent production, when it tries to obtain participants for the annual assembly of the student film club by sharply criticising the present directors, this all fits in to a publication's news programme. But as soon as—for example—in the case of the student theatre group, the reporter gives more consideration to the majority in the audience than to the minority on the stage (for after all, the purpose is to attract spectators), why should he limit himself to the student theatre? After all, the other theatres want the students to come to their productions, also. And if one has received permission to report on the hunger problem in refugee camps, as soon as the students have resolved to participate in "World Refugee Year" collection drives, then why not report on it earlier? Must the newspaper wait for the founding of the committee? Shouldn't the paper rather propose the committee's founding? Shouldn't it also report on the great problems in the world—e.g., the hunger problem in the Congo—even if it doesn't contemplate organising a collection drive?