<p>I want to join one of them as a student journalist. Opinions welcome.</p>
<p>The McGill Tribune is a mouthpiece of SSMU. The McGill Daily included contributors like Leonard Cohen back in the day. My own pick of course, would be *Le D</p>
<p>The above is entirely false.</p>
<p>The Tribune is completely independent, and its editorials are formed via deliberation amongst all editors. This makes its judgements a result of heated deliberation and passionate debate, and its editorial stances usually reflect the vox populi of the McGill student population. Its Opinion section will feature a diversity of views, because diversity is its goal.</p>
<p>The Daily, on the other hand is tied, by its very constitution, to advance the ideals of social justice. Such an agenda undeniably appeals to some, but for others, the idea of being beholden to a particular ideological framework is probably a turn-off. If you look at every section in the Daily, you can see this bias.</p>
<p>The most important thing to keep in mind is that the staff of the Daily form through a process of self-selection; that is, every single editor sitting on that board has joined the Daily because she or he already self-subscribes to the same ideological belief that is entrenched in the constitution of the Daily. For them, it is activism first, journalism second. The result is a homogenous group behind a fascade of heterogeneity.</p>
<p>Thanks to both answerers.
HieronymusBosch, that was kind of the vibe I was getting from the Daily - fairly biased and focused more on ideology and less on journalism.</p>