The American Spectator

br> — unsigned /p>

In a letter to The American Prowler a few months ago, I ventured that given their apparent precepts (e.g. that our amoral landscape was caused by Eisenhower era values and not the licentiousness of the 70’s), Sulzberger Jr. and Raines were better qualified to edit and publish the Playboy mansion house organ than the paper of record. When will America’s intelligentsia admit the obvious — this newspaper’s prejudices long since have disabled its function as an accurate gatherer and reporter of news.

Remember its page one repeat of Kitty Kelley’s libel of Nancy Reagan (directly implying the president’s wife had a carnal relationship with Hollywood low-life Frank Sinatra), its sliming of William Kennedy Smith’s victim, and its serial Pentagon Papers derring-do depicting Daniel Ellsberg as an American hero? I don’t know why anyone should be surprised that the Times would print Jayson Blair’s unlikely D.C. snipers’ scenarios i.e. unlikely except to editors blinded by hatred of George Bush and his faith.

p>By the way, have any introductory college English instructors looked at the mea culpa to their staff by Punch and Howell — they could chop deadwood in there for an hour. br> — J. R. Wheatley /p> p> It seems to me the real diversity that’s missing on the majority on newspapers is writers who are not predisposed to liberal thinking. br> — Margaret O’Neil br> /p>