To the editor(s),
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The worst, as I’m sure many others are letting you know, was Neal Pollack’s February 28 whine about the amount and caliber of punditry and poetry being published about the issue [“Everybody Shut Up!”]. To call this abuse of newsprint “childish” is an insult to children; my ten-year-old and his classmates have had more interesting and enlightening chats about Iraq over juice boxes at our dining-room table. Here’s a tip: if artists and journalists opining about an issue is just too much for Pollack to bear, he could move someplace where nobody worries about luxuries like “freedom of expression.”
But maybe that was just a bad editors’ week, because this week’s [March 7] cover story does you proud. Newspapers should, as Michael Miner reminds us so well, challenge our assumptions–shake, rattle, and roll our groupthink.
Paul Botts
