TO THE EDITOR:
The Daily Tar Heel interview with Gov. Pat McCrory published on Tuesday fell far short of responsible journalism from a publication that claims to represent University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students.
Even in the extended online version of this interview, not once was Gov. McCrory questioned or challenged on the severe budget cuts that he and the Republican majority in the North Carolina General Assembly have imposed on the UNC system since he took office last year.
The reporter who conducted this interview is the daughter of a prominent Republican lobbyist who helped with Gov. McCrory’s 2012 campaign and donated over $80,000 to Mitt Romney.
It appears that this conflict of interest is adversely affecting her ability to fairly cover the policy issues that are actually affecting UNC students and faculty.
With budget cuts increasingly threatening UNC’s future, it’s shameful that a Daily Tar Heel interview with Gov. McCrory completely neglected to raise this issue.
Peter Alfredson ’14
Germanic and Slavic Language & Literature
