Mission Statement

The Counter Point Journal aims to provide a space for those who are
participating in and are most affected by events to speak for
themselves.

We mean to engage and report on students, staff, and faculty who give
life to the campus through social movements, organizations,
committees, boards and other channels. We seek to bring the work being
done in our community to the attention of all community members,
stressing research and interview-based reporting. This creates the
kind of media we would most like to see.

Counter Point is simultaneously for us – we who have seen our
perspectives misrepresented, marginalized, or silenced completely by
present media outlets – as well as for those whom we interview, those
we challenge, and those who read. Our intent is entirely constructive,
while the critical elements serve as a jump-off point to begin our
discussion.

Additionally, we believe a main purpose of the media is to act as a
check against the powers that be, whether it’s a pervasive and hostile
state regime or the administrators of The Evergreen State College.
When the press fails in this aspect, it transforms from an instrument
of liberation and social change to a mouthpiece of oppression and
status quo.

A wholly free, democratically-run and easily accessible press fosters
the growth of grassroots social movements and helps those with the
least institutional power use their voice. This view helps fuel our
commitment to getting this paper off the ground and break-up the de
facto monopoly that the Cooper Point Journal holds on local press. If
nothing else can be said, competing press can only raise the standard
of journalism