Letter: Best coverage is none at all

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Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002 | 9:04 a.m.

There has been a great deal of discussion in the last few weeks about the propriety and necessity of extensive media coverage of the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9-11.

It seems to me that the most responsible coverage would be no coverage at all. If we want to encourage future attacks, the best way is to show that those attacks have had a profound effect on our lives. To publicize negative reactions is to portray the attacks as highly effective, thereby providing aid and comfort to the enemy.

We need to, instead, show that we have not been particularly affected.

WALLACE J. HENKELMAN