To The Daily News Record, Harrisonburg,
Virginia:
I was heartened to see that James Madison University students
were concerned about the health of the greater Harrisonburg community. If only the administration of the university
were as empathetic and intelligent as the students, we wouldn’t have to learn
the hard way that it is too early in the course of this pandemic to reopen the
school. As G.
W. F. Hegel 1770 – 1856 said: "What
experience and history teach us is this - that people and governments never
have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from
it."
Apparently, the hard way is the only way.
[The University closed down after less that a week of in-person classes]
To
The Washington Post, Washington, DC
Re: What I learned when the contact tracers CAME
for me. Dispatch from South Korea:
I think that the Washington Post needs an
ombudsman or at the least much better editors, (I refer to the “Dispatch for
South Korea” article of Sept 3). The
headline: “When the contact tracers came
for me" (emphasis added), was
yellow journalism at its worst.
What? Are you guys trying to
compete with the Globe and Enquirer now?
Your use of an infamous phrase from the depths of fascist Nazism was
completely out of synch with the rest of the article. Click bait isn’t restricted to the internet;
your Headline editor is doing the same thing to your newspaper. Stop it.
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