Quixote Rides Again
(May 28, 2009) Editor:
I love you guys. The Journal covers the Humboldt beat wonderfully, from hot headlines to deep-digging investigations to whimsical features that are really about us. It even has the best ads.
But nobody’s perfect. I have to agree with Mark Letlow’s letter (“Mailbox,” May 14). Is the foul language supposed to be sophisticated? Bold? Renegade? It usually strikes me as crass and shallow. Yeah, I can dish it out with the best of ’em, but not for major public presentation. Just not appropriate.
If the Journal aspires to be a paper for all the county, a little more sensitivity to the many of all persuasions who find rank language offensive would be a positive development.
I still love you.
Susan Nolan, McKinleyville
Editor:
Nice letter from Mark Letlow last issue regarding the use of profanity in your rag (“Mailbox,” May 14). But why disguise it? Why not just leave it out? Many kids and so-called adults have overused, in everyday conversation, those seven words George Carlin made so famously funny years ago, seemingly because they are not intelligent enough to use proper grammar to make their point. To see it in your columns is, well, juvenile. There is a place and time for that. Not in a weekly available to everyone, young and old, to pick up and read.
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