I would like to welcome readers all over the Pittsburgh area to the
inaugural issue of the Pittsburgh Standard, a one-of-a-kind newspaper
providing news you can use. We report information on news happenings as
objectively as possible, and we strive to provide you with the truth.
Not only will our news reporting be up to the standard, but we will also
be giving as many people as possible the ability to speak their mind.
As part of our effort to respect and acknowledge all viewpoints, we
welcome comments and submissions. We do this to continually provide a
high level of service and integrity to our readership. We want to give
you all the information you need and want, when you want it. So enjoy
yourself as you are looking through the Pittsburgh Standard and thanks
for reading!
As a first editorial to the paper I wondered what I would write that
could convey what this paper is all about and why we formed it. I also
wondered what would be the best thing to say to you that would make you
want to keep reading what we all have to say. So I figured that the best
place to start is to describe who we are, where we came from, and where
we are going.
This paper started out because of funding provided by the Center for
Life and Family, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating people
about life and family issues. Specifically, it seeks to inform the
younger generation in this area about the need to support life for
newborn babies and not death in the form of abortion.
We are all
former fetuses, and we all know that if we had a choice while we were in
our mother’s womb, on whether or not to live or die, we would have
chosen life. So as an organization funded by the Center we, as a group,
believe in those values set by them. Eventually we plan on becoming
totally independent of any organization by way of expanding our
advertising section.
We
are starting out as a conservative newspaper and we will continue to be
a conservative paper in the future. One of the main reasons why we
started this paper was to provide an alternative to the liberal media
that exists today. We strive to promote conservative values among our
readership and lift people up to a higher standard of integrity in
journalism.
The
mission of our paper is “To get the truth behind various news stories
out into the public’s eye and educate them in various ways. We will not
be biased one way or the other, but we will always carry the light of
truth that comes from Christ. Our hope is to slowly pull our generation
from the quagmire that Hollywood and the media has seemed to have led us
into.”
As
you can see, we are a conservative Christian paper dedicated to our
beliefs. We understand that the truth is out there, oftentimes right in
front of our eyes, and we just have to find it. That is what this paper
has set out to accomplish: to provide the truth, and to let the truth
speak for itself. And as we all know, the truth will set us free.
Impressions expressed herein are not necessarily
those of the Pittsburgh Standard staff or its funders. Letters to the
editor should be no more than 300 words and should include the writer's
name, phone number, and community affiliation for verification. Letters
must be sent by email to the Pittsburgh Standard at
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to the paper will be considered for publication. The Pittsburgh Standard
is an independent student-written and student-managed newspaper for the
University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon community. It is published
once a month.
