Last Friday, April 25, a local paper, the Courier-Islander, gave us a glimpse of what we can expect from the new owners when it published an editorial I'm pretty sure wasn't written in-house.
As is my wont when I find I'm somewhat offended by something political, I wrote a letter to the editor:
Dear Sir,
As a subscriber to your newspaper since the 1970's, it is extremely
disappointing to see a piece of rather obvious Conservative propaganda
masquerading as Friday's editorial (The Fair Elections Act. Is it fair
or unfair?)
Especially as the government that introduced the Act has now climbed
down from most of the contentious provisions so energetically defended
in that editorial.
Today that letter was published, along with two others in the same vein.
This afternoon J showed up. He wanted to talk about "your letter", and why, as a Campbell River lawyer who signs himself W.J. Havelaar he couldn't be associated with it.
Fair enough, although as I pointed out, the contents of the letter pretty clearly demonstrate that he couldn't have written it.
Anyway, I agreed to write another letter:
Dear Sir,
My son, W.J. (Jay) Havelaar, wants me to point out that there are four
W.J. Havelaars presently extant, and that he's not the one who has
subscribed to your paper since the 1970's, so he's not the one who wrote
the letter complaining about the "editorial" that appeared in the April
25th edition of the Courier-Islander.
Yours very sincerely,
W.J. (Justus) Havelaar
That should clear things up!
(Though I doubt they'll publish it.)
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
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