To the author of the Nov. 10 editorial, “Politicians and the press”: Giving your readers a false sense of importance, and thereby a false sense of reality, is just as severe a disservice as failing to cover the issues they care about.

The Daily Universe should be careful that they do not feel a sense of entitlement to attention from local politicians. The students who care about having their voice on “student issues” represented in local government care a lot and care loudly, but the vast majority of students do not care at all.

The acts of graciousness the editorial praised — candidates remembering reporters’ names and inviting photographers into their homes — are little more than small-scale publicity stunts (something the opinion editor condemned in her viewpoint on the same page).

Rather than watch the editorial board condemn unresponsive candidates, I would like to have seen The Daily Universe stop at gratitude for the attention it received from the candidates that did respond.

 Samantha Strong
Cincinnati