Letter: R-J shows true colors by ignoring Iraq mess

Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007 | 7:03 a.m.

This letter is a response to a column in Sunday's Las Vegas Review-Journal by its editor, Thomas Mitchell, that criticizes the Las Vegas Sun about some reporting on Sen. Harry Reid. Since the topic of the day is criticizing newspapers, I'd like to share my opinion of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

My issue with the Review-Journal is that over the past three years its editorial pages would go day after day avoiding the Iraq war debacle, only printing a few obligatory weekend stories with a Fox News Channel slant of the unfolding disaster. I've shared my opinion of the Review-Journal with the paper, and the paper has chosen not to publish it.

Meanwhile the Las Vegas Sun has been a reliable source of information on the Iraq war and continues to be. Thank you. And I do also thank the Review-Journal for so many laughs over the past three years as I opened their daily editorial pages to discover no Iraq war stories.

Chicken hawks, indeed.

Bob Coffman, Las Vegas

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