I will be the first one in line to decry any censorship by our mass media but is there some editorial power that can be exercised? I certainly hope the Kent Reporter gets more letters than the 4-6 per issue it publishes.
My concern is the recent letters to the editor that are obviously written by the mentally unstable. I wouldn’t mind seeing them in some blog or a comic radio hour; but in an editorial section of a newspaper I would expect letters that express a cogent opinion with some basis in fact and perhaps even some relevance to recent events or articles.
What I have seen are an old man rambling on about the glorious old days, some manifesto about some bizarre libertarian ideal disguised as something about Boeing and another pointless tirade.
If a letter has no real point and goes off the rails you don’t have to publish it. I hope there are better letters to choose from. Don’t force me to start writing letters from a moderate point of view that may even contain facts.
Shawn Helzen
Kent
(Editor’s note: The Kent Reporter publishes letters as a service to its readers. Provided the writer doesn’t engage in personal attacks on private citizens named specifically, or doesn’t libel themselves, we make an effort to print as many letters as we receive, and to let fellow readers determine if they want to read them.)
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