"personal viewpoint" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe an opinion or perspective that is based on one's own beliefs, experiences, and observations. For example, "While the majority of the class believed that the assignment was too difficult, my personal viewpoint was that it was just the right level of challenge."
If a writer doesn't have a personal viewpoint to share, then forget it!
Then again, he said he has a highly personal viewpoint about the impact of new technologies on warfare.
He draws (no pun intended) a distinction between political cartoons, which reflect the cartoonist's personal viewpoint, and caricatures and illustrations, which represent someone else's point of view.
For homework, they each write a letter to the editor expressing their personal viewpoint on the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas.
In an interview, Mr. Gilbert said that the works programmed for next year represented only a "small sliver" of a long list of pieces he wants to conduct, and that they reflected his personal viewpoint.
"My own personal viewpoint is that those dinners for 500 people in a tent are for the birds," Mrs. Baldrige told Vanity Fair for an article about Ms. Rogers and White House state dinners in 2010.
"You don't put your personal viewpoints in a good movie," he said.
"We regret that a respectful discussion of personal viewpoints became a distraction from today's news," it said.
Thus does the umpire metaphor misleadingly jumble together the ideas of belief, bias and activism, as though all personal viewpoints are somehow tainted for being personal.
The sharpest dissent came from Justice Hecht, the court's leading conservative, who accused the majority of not of putting aside personal viewpoints, but acting on them.
Critics themselves say that they are, after all, only expressing their personal viewpoints — and so are themselves exempt from criticism of any kind.
