Very, very rarely do I see kids reading the paper version. I don't doubt that the online version gets some hits, though, I've done that myself many times.
The Daily does give experience, and I think that may also be part of Ag's problem with it: it's not very good journalism, nor very good experience, to push articles that don't equally represent both sides of a story. Why fund it if it's being led in the wrong direction, anyway?
Not that I support that conclusion, but I can understand where it's coming from.
So they wrote an article that has a heavily left leaning slant?
Sounds like these students will be perfect candidates to be hired by many of the so-called newspapers today.