Dear Editor,
According to one of Ms. Pampuch’s columns, the editor writes the
titles for the letters and columns. The title serves as an outline
to the article.
Dear Editor,
According to one of Ms. Pampuch’s columns, the editor writes the titles for the letters and columns. The title serves as an outline to the article.
In order to better understand this process, I reversed the steps by underlining main points in the title then drew connecting lines to the same phrase in the article, each time the titles corresponded to the articles main theme.
Which brings me to the point of that little exercise. The title given to Ms. Walker’s Aug. 19 column, “Letter Writers Serve Up a Barrage of Slop on Important Issues,” had absolutely no corresponding reference point in the column. In fact the “Issues” in question were of relatively minor importance.
The possibility that Mr. Morejon and I could have offended the editor or the editorial staff, so deeply, as to warrant such assault is both professionally and intellectually irresponsible. Therefore the only reasonable conclusion is that some maverick has exceeded their authority and slipped one passed the editor.
Speaking for myself, if the intent of that derogatory innuendo was to intimidate me into yielding just one small part of my right to freedom of speech, then someone missed a very important meeting. I don’t get intimidated, I get stimulated. This provincial stunt has only inspired me to continue speaking out in spite of the well known fact that I’m not a resident of the city of Gilroy.
Harold Williams, San Jose
