I have just emailed the following letter to the Albuquerque Journal:
"Dear Sirs:
Your editorial and Op-Ed pages offer us lots more right-wing opinion than views from the left. Further, your rightists include some gutsy fire-eaters, while the so-called liberals you publish are not only barely left-of-center, but personally mild. It’s your newspaper, however, and that’s your prerogative.
You also provide regular opinions from think tanks, like the recent.article by Heather MacDonald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, who channeled the wisdom of Attorney General John Ashcroft on what led to 9/11. And the piece by Neal McCluskey, policy analyst at Cato Institute, critiquing John Kerry’s ideas on helping students pay for college.
I do not expect balance, but why not identify Manhattan and Cato politically, as the right-wing organizations they are? Or, alternatively, tell us who funds them. With that information, readers could better evaluate their arguments. And that would be fair.
Arthur Alpert
Albuquerque