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LETTERS, Page 6Politics and Reporters
The comments of outrage made by the Wall Street Journal when
its long-time reporter A. Kent MacDougall revealed he had been a
"closet socialist" distressed me (PRESS, Feb. 6). Considering the
distinguished career MacDougall had with the paper, it was
insulting to question his fitness as a journalism professor. The
beginning of my education in journalism was under MacDougall. As
in his reporting, his concerns were not with ideology but with
accuracy and thoroughness. Reed Irvine of Accuracy in Media should
embrace MacDougall's work as an example of the standard for which
all reporters should aim.
Daniel S. Levine
Albany, Calif.
The problem of bias in the media need not go beyond the
"lesser" charge that MacDougall pleads guilty to. That is, "his
beliefs merely influenced the types of stories he tried to pursue."
But is that such a small thing? If MacDougall reported on issues
that cast his beliefs in a favorable light, then his reporting was
biased.
J. Ward Moody, Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Weber State College
Ogden, Utah