We are hopeful you will soon run out of, or refuse to publish, the letters of the caca school of writing of Malibu Road. We have also been hopeful that when you bought the rag, which was essentially the mouthpiece of the Chamber of Commerce, you would be able to turn it into a first-class newspaper. That transformation would depend greatly on editorial judgment, including such decisions as whether to publish letters lamenting dog “poop” and “pee” on the beach. Take as your guide the first-class publication The New York Times. Would the Times, for example, devote their entire “Letters to the Editor” space to the wailings of a couple of writers who when walking barefoot on the beach are not alert enough to step over a pile of doggy poo?
We are additionally hopeful you will not object to a correction of fact in your story about the “emergency meeting of the City Council” called at 8 a.m. last week to hear proposals for a $15 million bond issue to be spent on recreational and conservation projects. You identified us as being members of the group favoring the bond issue. To the contrary, we attended in our guise as taxpayers interested in how the money would be spent, how it would be administered, and how much it would cost us.
Carl and Carol Randall