So, on my trawl through the bbc news, as i do at least twice daily I found this http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7308654.stm

the beebs correspondent is making a very interesting point about US primary election spending. And well he uses an example of doughnuts £3,000 spent in one city alone and gives some incredible figures on other amounts spent too.

I'd now like to take compare this to the UPSU elections, with its cap on election spending, which some have complained that the £60 is a little restrictive and hasn't allowed for inflation since the 1950's either way isnt the point.

Throughout the elections, of which i was around for a lot of the time. WHERE WERE THE DOUGHTNUTS???? there was two boxes of krispy Kremes,which I brought down to the Union.

**Sulks** 

So today saw the close of UPSU Sabbatical elections. Still awaiting confirmation from UPSU over who is standing, this could be fun. We will endeavour to bring you as much information as we will be practically able to.

Ohh and this evening, in the office, doing a little bit of work and get a frantic phone call. Guildhall is full of fire engines and blue shiny lights.

Me and Tom (our Resident  cameraman) were on scene within minutes to document....... a fire brigade exercise. Damn it, it seemed quite exciting and it gave as an opportunity to get some stock images and chat to some new contacts.

Anyway, Gamel Mag editor has just come into my house (i'm not sure who let him in) and is demanding I do on a Pugwash Social, SO i better go. He is my boss and everything

So, as you can see from the lateest bumper 16 page first in a series edition of Pugwash News, elections are upon us.

I’m not going to preach to you about why you should get involved, I am going to discuss the role of UPSU media.  News, current affairs and anything timely comes under my job description, which means the elections and particularly how the printed and online media cover them becomes my responsibility. This on one hand means that I have news to write on without looking too far, which has its benefits considering the exams, deadlines and whatever else is being demanded of me by my degree. However,  a whole new dilemma appears when covering elections. One that has got me slightly stumped and baffled: should we cover elections? How do we cover them fairly and without showing bias or appearing to show bias?

The BBC and the mainstream press have a similar dilemma when it comes to general elections. When it comes to general elections the BBC have a responsibility to cover the current government and the official opposition along with Liberal Democrats in equal measures. This works fine, however with the UPSU sabbatical elections the number of candidates can be huge, and to mention everyone would involve having a paper four times the size and me having the long overdue heart attack.

So where do we go? Do we only report on candidates doing interesting things? But then who defines interesting?

We could just ignore the whole process but that would then fail my primary aim, which is to try and educate and stimulate debate amongst you our readers.

I’m lost and my brain hurts, am I over reacting? Is this just a huge collection of pig laws or do I have reason to fret?