Hopefully this will be The Last Battle – like that bit at the gates of Mordor where the dark tower crumbles. We need to have a permanent solution on this – and one that actually helps students – and the media are vital to helping us save *our* porters!

This year’s reporting so far has been poor to awful, both in terms of how the story has been related as well as the actual facts of the story. They seem to have people writing about stories when they aren’t fully sure of what’s happening making articles sound confused and misleading. Poor journalism. Again.

The first sentence refers to the YUSU Campaigns meeting held on Wednesday 10th October. At the meeting, the Campaigns committee voted in favour of a holding protest next Thursday.

The second sentence then jumps to the latest UGM. The sentence suggests that at the YUSU Campaigns meeting 94% of the committee voted in favour of the protest – when in fact the decision to procede with a protest was unnanimous. 94% is the percentage of students who voted in favour of the Porters motion at the UGM.

The third and fourth sentences are also misleading. They suggest Ben Humphries spoke against the idea of a protest at the YUSU Campaigns meeting, which is again untrue. He infact provided critical information, and advised the committee on how best to conduct the protest.