Top 10: Space Force Objectives
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 22, 2019
Get in the shuttle, loser, we’re going to make the galaxy great again. As the Space Force blasts off, here are 10 top priorities for the new military branch.
Editorial: Post-Gazette executive editor threatens newspaper integrity
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 20, 2019
Not only does Burris’ new assignment indicate a condonement of the whitewashing of racism, but it flies in the face of journalistic ethics.
Top 5 / Bottom 5: Las Palmas
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
February 8, 2019
Las Palmas has a cult following on campus — but is there anything they could do that would actually cause them to lose support? Read more here:
The Post-Gazette pushes back after Rob Rogers’ firing
By Grant Burgman | News Editor
June 20, 2018
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette fired cartoonist Rob Rogers June 14 for being “unwilling to collaborate on his cartoons” after 25 years of creating editorial cartoons for the paper. Rogers claims that he was fired because his supervising editors thought he was being too harsh to President Donald Trump...
Editorial: Post-Gazette editorial not representative of newspaper or city
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
January 16, 2018
If the Pittsburgh Post-Gazettes’ Monday editorial “Reason as racism” put a bad taste in your mouth, you’re not alone. The editorial defended President Donald Trump’s inflammatory statement he made in a meeting Thursday with lawmakers discussing immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and sev...
Editorial: NFL player safety more important than politics
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
December 6, 2017
It seems like the National Football League won’t leave the headlines. The week 13 game Monday night between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cincinnati Bengals turned violent, resulting in a potentially life-altering spinal injury for Steelers’ linebacker Ryan Shazier and multiple players’ ejections...
Editorial: Senator Flake denounces, but forfeits to the new normal
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 24, 2017
Republican Sen. Jeff Flake from Arizona delivered a 17-minute speech on the Senate floor Tuesday denouncing “the new normal” and declaring he won’t seek reelection in 2018 — but his powerful political call to action was a resounding forfeit. In a Washington Post op-ed the same day, Flake ...
Editorial: In wake of Weinstein, keep pushing forward
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 18, 2017
Most English teachers — and certainly any editor — will say to use the active voice when possible. Jackson Katz, an educator and author at the forefront of the male feminism movement, wants to make sure you remember that too. “We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men...
Editorial: Commemorating a slain journalist
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 17, 2017
It was a sunny afternoon yesterday in the island nation of Malta, between North Africa and Sicily. Daphne Caruana Galizia was driving her Peuguot near her home when a car bomb exploded, killing her and tossing the wreckage of the car into a nearby field. When The Guardian broke the news last night,...
Editorial: Trump’s big, empty tax promises
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
October 12, 2017
President Donald Trump visited Harrisburg Wednesday, Oct. 11 to discuss his plans for tax reform in front of a crowd of roughly 1,000 people. The crowd comprised mostly of truckers and small manufacturing business owners — the types of people Trump promised to help while campaigning for the presiden...