February 25, 1994
“Abortion Law Unleashed” proclaims your Feb. 15 front-page headline. Unleashed? You mean like a rabid dog is unleashed on a helpless child? Like Hitler unleashed his blitzkrieg on Poland in World War II? You sure made it sound like a lamentation instead of legislation.
I haven’t studied Journalism 101-102 since college days and it’s been a long time since I was a newspaper editor, but somewhere along the way, I had always been taught — and quite fervently believe — that editorials belonged on the editorial page and facts belonged on the front page. Wouldn’t journalistic objectivity have been better served with something like “Abortion Law In Effect”? Ambiguity aside, are you people in the newspaper business or are you the official spokesmen for the abortion mentality?
JACK O’NEIL
Sewickley