It's time to speak up

DEAR  EDITOR:

 

Mr. Russell,

 

It is okay with me if you get upset because I get upset too, about a lot of things...one is YOU and too many other editors of quickly dying newspapers. Yours, The Dallas Star, should have passed away long ago.
You have been a careless editor, not checking facts in your rush to beat the New Orleans Speed to publication.

 

Case in point: Last Friday your headline, meaning to gain readers fast, got me and too many others with your simple big, blast of nothing. The story was NOT 'once upon a time.' It happened at least five times in one week.

 

Case in point: There was no 'goose drinking wine' I checked Snopes and it was a swan having a Coke, floating beside her eternal mate, enjoying her drifting and you turned her into a drunk. Shame on you. On page two you had Pete, a gibbon from Venezuela, chewing tobacco. He was not. He was chewing a piece of Wrigley's spearmint gum, enjoying himself when you wrote he had cancer due to his ugly tobacco habit.

 

Page 3, after the gibbon goof-off, you mentioned the San Francisco trolley broke down at the turnaround. It did not. The trolley needed cleaning, a new seat here and there. Are you taking notes, Mr. Russell?

 

And tell me, who told you (and you printed without checking) that a monkey choked. That little monkey had a cold and coughed. He did die of pneumonia and you didn't bother to mention he was to be buried in the Gettysburg National Cemetery. I checked and very few people attended.

 

The piece de resistance just the week of July 2 thru the 9th was why you were negligent going to your opthamologist for a check up? The boat was yellow, not green and its sails did not open quickly. It never got to heaven at all.

 

So, there you are, sitting in your big editorial office, waiting to be jobless soon. I must add I will be sorry to lose your paper as well as all the others who are about ready to throw in the towel, but then a gain, think about the good you will be doing.

 

Millions of trees are going to thrive and grow tall, beautiful. They will have time to let their seeds re-plant themselves and before we former readers have time to be blue, our land will be green again.

 

UNTRULY Yours,
John Frazier, Esq.
2214 Hazel Rd.
Dallas, TX 34275