A Newspaper needs a variety of viewpoints‏

I fully agree with Mr. Liam McGinley and others who have commented on the lack of more balanced contents in the Aiken Standard. I fully believe that for a city having only one newspaper, that newspaper should have a broader range of views to serve all the public, not just the Conservative Republican viewpoint. Granted the Editorial is the editor's domain and pulpit but the rest of the paper, including columns, letters and talkback should be balanced between the Conservative, Democratic and Republican viewpoints which makes up the readership and population of Aiken. In all fairness I believe the letters and talkback try to follow that course for the most part, but the columns like Bill O'Reilly, who keep mediamatters and factcheck.org working almost overtime, and most of the news definitely is not which does not serve the readership fairly. The Republican party used to be a big and strong national political party, but over the past few years has more and more become affiliated with the Conservative Party. That affiliation brought on a ConservativeRepublican Party which caused many former members to defect in anger and disgust and become Independent and some even Democrat. That defection caused the once big strong national Republican Party to become for the most part a small, intolerant, narrow-minded regional conservativerepublican minority party. A fact that the Aiken Standard has failed to fully address and has failed its readership by continuing on with that failure.
Frank Gorman
Aiken, South Carolina