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Herald’s Credibility and the
Blackout of Buchanan
Date: March 28, 2000
To: Letters to the Editor
The Boston Herald
One Herald Square
Boston, Massachusetts 02106
letterstoeditor@bostonherald.com
Dear Editor:
There has been a rather noticeable dearth of coverage of likely Reform
Party Presidential nominee Patrick Buchanan in your pages of late. Major
policy addresses, including the speech Buchanan gave in our own backyard
recently at Harvard, are ignored, as are other newsworthy stories such as
Buchanan and the Reform Party’s recent filing of a complaint with the Federal
Elections Commission to force the Commission on Presidential Debates to open
up the debates and allow all the three parties that receive public financing
to participate, not just the two establishment parties. Moreover, when
Buchanan is mentioned, it seems as though it is usually only in a negative
light, such as the Herald’s March 27 piece on the Reform Party spat up in New
Hampshire. And how square your editorial page’s past criticism of both
Buchanan’s and Senator Bob Smith’s exodus from the GOP - when you suggested
both had “overblown egos” - with your recent pleading for Senator John McCain
to do just that? For a paper that is not afraid to question the credibility
of others, perhaps it is time you examined your own.
Sincerely,
Robert M. LaMarca
South Boston, MA
R172L@aol.com
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