This letter is to inform you people/liars/administration drones at The
Birmingham "News" that you are what you are, fascist pigs.
Please explain to me how you decided March 23 that a spontaneous
protest march that brought almost 300,000 people to the streets of New
York would get only a small mention inside the paper, while other articles
especially those pro-war or pro-administration were plastered (with
pictures) all over the front page.
I know that you may personally be against the protesters and that you
may be 150 percent behind "our" president, even though that is in my
opinion not even realistic. You may want to pander to the people around
here who think the "protesters can just go to France." However, you people
are the press. You are supposed to report what happens, not what you think
should be shown.
Darn it, guys, you are supposed to uphold the Constitution and the
truth, not the administration. Report the truth, not what you want it to
be.
Because of your obvious decision to cover the war in Iraq as "we
support our leader/liberator/fuhrer," I will not be reading (mostly) or
buying your paper until this fall, when college football starts. This is
so I don't have to be exposed to such blatant, fascist, Nazi, cowardly
drivel.
I support our troops, not Bush, and hope that they will win this soon
and come home, where they should have been in the first place.
Scott Hollon
Hoover
News gives fuel to anti-war crowd:
In my opinion, the picture of the crying Iraqi baby on the front page
of March 31 Birmingham News only tends to add fuel for the anti-war crowd.
At a time like this, I consider this to be poor journalism. What positive
effect did this picture give?
Russell M. Hatfield
Trussville
Hunting for truth in Iraqi rhetoric:
Two letters on April 1, for different reasons, chided The News on its
war coverage. One surmised that your paper, with its "liberal slant," is
biased and that you are "promoting the enemy."
For sure, The News has bias. We all do. I differ a lot with some of
your editorials, but never question your integrity. Never could I believe
you would promote the enemy. That's ludicrous.
As to the letter's suggestion that you should attack Bush, not the
troops, I would point to the second letter. If people want facts rather
than pro-/anti-war hyperbole, that letter is a place to start.
It gives a litany of events that seem to link, since the 1980s,
administration officials in too-close association with Saddam Hussein.
If true, it would make the administration's high moral rhetoric about
Iraqi "evildoers" a bit hollow.
I have read quite a few of these claims from several sources. I think
that an objective, point-by-point analysis by The News would do us all a
service.
Gene Griffin
Hoover
Liberal agenda in war coverage:
Recent letters to the editor have lambasted the media for their
"anti-American" coverage of the war.
Actually, the national news media have covered the war in an
outstanding manner in terms of attaining the final goal of our liberal
forces back home.
It must be remembered that to this recently defeated and embittered
national faction, with its liberal press corps strategically embedded
among unsuspecting fighting men, the Iraqi war and the extent of its
failure constitute hopefully another successful battle in the "real" war:
the war against President Bush.
Armond "Si" Simmons
Pell City
Skeptical press can't handle truth:
I have observed several news conferences concerning the war during
which the military or executive branch is questioned by reporters.
The tone of the questions, the demeanor of most of the reporters and
the inferences they make with their questions clearly indicate that they
doubt the truth of the information they are being given.
The result reflects that they believe the Arab press more than our own
leaders as to what is happening in the war.
Since the preceding administration constantly distorted, shaded or just
outright lied so much, I just don't think these people can "handle the
truth."
Marion P. Spina
Vestavia Hills
Sister needs more respect for victims:
Ricky Peterson was my ex-brother-in-law, and I hesitate to say anything
about what has happened, given my connections to the Peterson family.
Nevertheless, I simply became infuriated by the thoughtless comments in
The News made by Christopher Hyde's half-sister Brandy Bertram.
"I think if he'd known it was a preacher he never would have done
that." Are cold-blooded killers selective? What about the minister's wife
and the semi-retired man; do they count in this selective process?
Bertram said she hopes people reserve judgment on her brother until the
full story of the triple slaying comes out. It does not sound as if the
sister has reserved judgment on her half-brother, given her comments.
Some known facts are Hyde has been in trouble throughout his life,
served time for almost killing a man in Florida, displayed bad behavior in
prison, and is now accused of killing three innocent people with no regard
for humanity.
Does Bertram really think that these deeply grieving families can take
much more of the "full story" when their loved ones have been wrongly
taken and their lives have been altered forever? A simple "my prayers are
with the families and friends" would have been much more appropriate and
less insulting to everyone's intelligence.
Darlene Winston
Lake Worth, Fla.
Mountain Brook does it again:
Mountain Brook is at it again. Once again, Mountain Brook is
aggressively seeking to serve only itself. With the planned development of
the "dirt pile" on U.S. 280, and the re-engineering of Green Valley Road,
Mountain Brook will create a traffic nightmare on top of an already
existing one.
At an April 1 meeting, where only a certain group of residents was
invited, Bayer representative and Mountain Brook Planning Commission
member David Silverstein presented a shopping/residential development
plan.
What was really fascinating was to watch and hear Silverstein ask the
press to stop taking notes on what was being said. I wonder what he didn't
want the rest of the Cahaba Heights community to hear?
Is this Mountain Brook's last-ditch effort to reclaim some of the lost
tax revenue from the Summit? Maybe the Brook should have annexed all of
Cahaba Heights when it had the chance.
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