Classroom fairness doubted

Sat., June 13, 2009

The Spokesman-Review

I read the closed-minded, hateful article on June 7 by Jamie Tobias Neely, former associate editor of The Spokesman-Review. She thinks “Rush Limbaugh’s and Bill O’Reilly’s voices are powerfully, seductively destructive.” She said we used to be “mercifully free of (their) particularly virulent form of hate speech.”

She thinks we should “disagree without being disagreeable.”

I’ll bet she is really fair-minded in her new position as assistant professor of journalism at Eastern Washington University.

Ruthie Johnson

Hayden Lake

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