ER - Where is the apology from Reporter's editor?

Where is the apology from Reporter's editor?
9/16/2005

Dear Editor,

Where is Franco-Simmons with his apology? You must have been foaming at the mouth, Glenn, when you wrote that editorial excoriating Salzman.

Yellow journalism at its finest. It wasn’t all that long ago that you freaked at publishing a letter of mine that implied that Manne had not told the truth. Implied, mind you. You went off on the threat of libel, you even put a statement in the paper about letters and the issue of libel.

The same standard doesn’t seem to apply to your editorial which was a mass of shameless character assassination, gross misstatements, innuendo and more twists and turns than the road to Honeydew.

Let me straighten out some of those twists. Richard’s letters were not “malicious,” nor were they even remotely “Machiavellian manipulation.” Talk about hyperbole, talk about abuse of the editor’s seat.

As for Richard disappearing: I ran into him just days ago at a public event. He spent this last weekend at a long-planned event with many other attendees. If he is not responding to requests to speak with you, I certainly can’t fault him. He would be stupid indeed to give you the opportunity to twist his words into corkscrews.

Although Richard’s letters were not “malicious,” what is darn close to malicious are the out-of-control attacks on Richard by yourself and others for your own political purposes.

Richard did what has been done since writing was invented, something that has commonly been done by the editors of The New York Times; he used a pen name to get information out that there simply was no other way to get out. But you and your buddies are using this for all its worth to advance your own agenda.

Sylvia De Rooy
Westhaven

(Editor’s note: Richard Salzman could have published the same R. Trent Williams letters in The Eureka Reporter under his real name. His letters were always published under Richard Salzman. There was no need to be dishonest.)
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