January 7, 2009 in Letters

Positively negative, but honest

The Spokesman-Review
 

To evoke duality to the maximum: Levi Hanson (“Mailbag full of hostility,” Jan. 4) is positively correct; negatively wrong, or positively incorrect; negatively right.

There is one thing obvious, though. A person seeking to attain positive enlightenment in life is not going to acquire it by writing negative letters to the editor with the value of opposing it. Maybe it’s that Zen philosophy being eluded. Or, it has been obtained.

If the S-R selected only letters accentuating positive comments, it wouldn’t be fair and balanced reporting. As an example, if I wrote, “Levi Hanson’s letter was positively and totally on the money,” it would be with pretense and affectation, a lie.

If Hanson truly wanted to suggest being positive, how can this be by selecting words as: “mean-spirited,” “name-calling,” others being “obviously disrespectful” (but being disrespectful to others’ point of view), “disdain,” “hoax,” “negative” news, and needing to take blood pressure medication; was this one, in fact, being truthful or was it metaphorical?

Hanson’s letter was mostly negative but, I assume, honest.

David J. Rosenbeck

Medical Lake

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  • blueeyes on January 07 at 6:19 a.m.

    The SR loses more readers and more respect by choosing what they print and do than any newspaper I have ever seen. I’ve lived in ten states and one territory and never considered cancelled my paper due to content and ethics.

    I stopped SR paper delivery and thought I would give them one more chance viewing it onliine as letters seemed to be fewer and more throughtful for a while. But I see it’s still the same old, same old.

    And they wonder why readership is down. Printing uninformed, and yes, mean spirited letters isn’t a good plan to expand circulation. Most of us are sick to death of negative, arrogant people - we’re Bushed out. And the SR just doesn’t seem to get it. If people like to read it so be it - keep you Jerry Springer types because that is who you are playing to.

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