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March 28, 2003
Think before publishing
Letters
Editor: I do not usually write letters to the newspapers. The last
time I wrote to the Jewish Bulletin was about 20-odd years
ago when I was president of a Vancouver Jewish organization. Perhaps
it's because I'm too lazy! However, the letters in the March 21st
edition of the Bulletin prompted me to write.
I was present at the Philosophers' Café that was attended
by the representatives of the Bulletin and, at that meeting,
I remarked that I had never come across any other newspaper where
a single letter to the editor had taken up a complete page. Thus,
I found it pleasing to read the concise, yet fully informative,
letters sent by the various Jewish newspaper editors, writers and
others.
They all seem to agree on one thing that they do not publish
(or at least they think twice about publishing) letters of an anti-Israel
or anti-Jewish nature. I particularly liked the idea of David Seltzer
of the Cleveland Jewish News, where he states that, if you
consider such a letter may be of interest to the readers, a Canadian
Jewish Congress person should read it before publication so that
an appropriate response may appear on the same page.
I agree with the message carried by all these letters think
carefully before publishing anti-Israel or anti-Jewish letters.
Nathan Cannon
Vancouver
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