Letters to the Editor and Responses to Issues in the News

MERCURY NEWS

Does Mercury News Publisher Sharon Ryan Stand by the Paper’s Bigotry?

The article was biased and discriminatory in the extreme and targeted an individual exclusively because of his membership in a minority religion, in blatant violation of Bay Area News Group published policies and standards mandating “fairness” “accuracy” and “credibility.”

Mercury News, Quit the Bigoted Rumormongering

You will be the undeserving subject of ridicule someday. It will feel unfair. You will wonder why anyone could get away with lying about you. Then perhaps you will recognize that, as a news source, you’ve done the same thing to others.

Mercury News, You Give Hate a Platform

Before you print drivel like this you should check your facts and sources. You might even want to consider finding something true to write about that will help people rather than picking fake stories and running them to the end of hate and harm.

Your Coverage Is Despicable, Mercury News

I hope you will look at this for what it is: the exploitation of a horrible tragedy to spew hatred—something that doesn’t belong in our world.

Mr. Pine, Suppose These Lies Were Published About You?

Suppose an “Expose the Media” blog said that an unnamed source said that a person whose father was a journalist said that journalists are abusive, neglectful parents and that their kids are usually messed up.

Welcome to the Tabloid Section, Mercury News

“Anonymous” sources are expected in supermarket tabloids, the category you now fall into. Congratulations.

Mercury News—Get Straight Facts on Scientology

Let me do a compare: reading your article, and others like it, is akin to asking a Jew to read Mein Kampf when seeking to understand the Torah. Who would do it? No one. This is why your article, and others like it, are never opened, never read and are dismissed out of hand.