Editorial Search

In my search for an editorial I see much that is uninteresting to me. “Haiti: Obama’s Katrina” and “Don’t Give Up Now”, political babble turns me away. It is all I hear and see where ever I go. America is consumed by negativity in that it’s all that we really know and think of our country.

In “How Conan Should Have Said Goodbye”, Dorothy Ranibowitz states that if we find humor and entertainment in things such as Leno, Letterman and Conan, and considered top entertainers, then there is something seriously wrong with how we as people think. I see editorials talking about the controversy of a child having three biological parents, who should be in custody and that this “legal battle” is based off of tests done on monkeys in a lab. Who really cares is my question! The only way for such things to happen is if it were done in a lab, other than that it is almost impossible for a child to have multiple parents. Why are people trying to figure out and do things that are completely unnecessary?

Yes there are editorials that do concern the public safety such as global climate change and what is going on in the world, but people do not always want to read about that. We see it all the time; on the news, television, radio, newspapers, and magazines. It becomes tiring and dull. I have seen and heard so much about what is going on in Haiti but not much about other countries that have been struggling with equal issues for a longer period of time. Give me something new!

There are some editorials that really did catch my attention. One spoke of gender gaps in colleges, asking who was smarter; men or women? Basing of the data that women now outnumber men is applying, attending and graduating from college; that men are now getting in easier and is concerning higher officials that there is bias in admission. Editorials such as this concern ME. I have a part in this; I am a female in a college that is female dominated. I am more passionate about what is going on that is affecting my education, rather than Late Night Entertainers who sleep with their co-workers.