I would like to provide some feedback on The Daily Sentinel’s GJSentinel.com Web site home page.
First, there is the matter of the “mystery photographs” on which your organization is soliciting commentary. This morning the blurb next to a small, clickable icon of the photo in question read: “People keep asking, ‘Have you seen these pictures?’ We haven?t. Have you?” This sounds very silly. Obviously your organization has seen these pictures, as they are posted on your Web site.
I would also like to comment on the featured Mesa State Criterion stories featured at the bottom of your home page. I am very disappointed in the poor quality and vapidity of the Criterion. It has the feel of a junior high school newspaper, and if the creators are future journalists, I feel gloomy indeed.
As college students they should be held to a higher standard of quality and content. Specifically I am annoyed by the story that has been featured for quite some time now on the gjsentinel.com home page, “Imagination ‘quackfires’: Bath toys bad for sexual gratification,” from the Criterion. This is a ridiculous excuse for a story. It has no place in the Criterion, much less on the Web site of the Sentinel, a news organization that is supposed to be professional. I am offended by this story mainly because of its stupidity. However there is also the matter of its appropriateness, or lack thereof, for youngsters.
I hope that kids are sufficiently interested in current affairs to read the newspaper. However, if they come to The Daily Sentinel home page, they will find a story about sex toys. How disgusting. You have recently made some improvements to the GJSentinel.com home page and I hope that more improvements will be in the works.
REBECCA WINTERS
Grand Junction

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