Should a major publication publish letters to the editor that are blatantly misleading? Or should they allow such letters in an attempt to show a variety of perspectives (as misleading as they may be)?
I ask this in light of a letter in the latest issue of The New Yorker. The letter states "Australia, Italy, England, Japan, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine all supported the war in Iraq and sent troops." Worded that way and with that verb tense it seems to imply that all of these countries sent troops during the "major combat operations" period of the war, something that most of those countries did not do. Is this appropriate? Or is the problem less one of journalistic ethics and more one of sentence construction?
Posted by armand at August 19, 2004 02:44 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Culture