The Minnesota Daily receives hundreds of angry letters from students, former Daily staff, University of Minnesota alumni and loses money. The notion of eliminating the sports section and staff, when examined by the Daily management, is therefore irrational. The Minnesota Daily receives hundreds of angry letters from students, former Daily staff, University of Minnesota alumni and saves money. The notion of eliminating and downsizing the Arts and Entertainment section, when examined by the Daily Management, is therefore rational. I'm not suggesting in any way that the sports section or any other part of the Daily be eliminated, with perhaps the exception of the biweekly columnists.
Newspaper columnists can be a real pain for management.
In fact, the elimination of any aspect of comprehensive news coverage for the Daily is a bad idea. Reporting on arts and culture becomes, via my suggestion, a process of writing to make visible in text the otherwise invisible reality of these foundations in society. While I understand the need to maintain a financially solvent organization, the Daily management has made a poor decision that is most certainly rational, and to make a point not often heard, wrong. Here begins the submission of so many management groups to the supremacy of the number. I'm not suggesting that financial stability should be thrown to the wind in the process of running the Daily.