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Show Letters To Editor What's 'Free Press? Dear Edior: Mr. Damjanovich's letteer of Feb. 8 makes humorous reading. read-ing. He assails the "Deseret News" for an editorial dealing with proposed changes in Utah's liquor laws as reflecting reflect-ing "little of the tradition of a free press." HE MAKES this statement toward the end of his letter: "Certainly no one expected the 'Deseret News' to come out in favor of the legislation, but they could have been expected to keep quiet on an issue which so profoundly effects non-members of the (L.D.S.) Church." One wonders if freedom of the press is to be exercised by meekly "keeping quiet" on all controversial legislation. Brent Baxter ial on Feb. 1 was such a flagrant flag-rant example of what has come to be known as "yellow journalism" journ-alism" that I got bugged. I AGREE completely with his judgement as regards Edward P. Morgan. Mr. Morgan has been, and is, in my opinion also a magnificent commentator. I believe that persons of varying vary-ing views should be presented to the public to assist them in making up their minds. I do not agree that Mr. Morgan Mor-gan needs to be built up by tearing someone else down. . Mr. Briscoe states, "Today most columnists and commentators commen-tators are either puppets of a pre-defined ideology or are afraid to say anything with which anyone, no matter how ignorant, might disagree." THIS TO ME seems to be an example of the narrowminded-ness, narrowminded-ness, bigotry, andor the other battle between the sexes," "the Mormon girl waiting for her missionary," "the battles between be-tween the Greeks and the g.d. i.'s," "what is happening at the house tonight" etc, etc. Mr. Townsend would now have us infer from this flawless argument argu-ment the obvious conclusion that Utah is not narrow. THIRDLY, I realize that the article may have been written as a big joke or just to fill up space; however he has written on a touchy subject with me. Mr. Townsend has taken for his argument three amazing false premises, only two of which he bothers to explain, and shown us that Utah is not narrow: 1. The Huddle is the "melting "melt-ing pot of Utah." 2. Huddle gossip represents non-narowness. 3. A drive down State Street will prove Utah's non-narrowness ahere is a strange silence Utah Is Narrow Dear Editor: This letter is in rebuttal to Mr. Townsend's column Feb. 5 titled "Utah Narrow? Look Again." I felt that he has made a few too many generatlzations for me. FIRST OF ALL, I am not an "outsider." I have traveled in Europe and most of America but I have lived in Utah for over 14 years. At present I am forced to live on campus and listen to the "cracker-barrel wisdom" which comes out of the "melting pot of Utah." Secondly, all of Mr. Townsend's Town-send's article is devoted to the Huddle and its virtues of non-narrowness: non-narrowness: "the never ending about this point). LASTLY attempts to show that Utah is not narrow and extremely dull interest me a great deal because I think that they're all futile. Utah is indeed very narrow and fantastically dull and I would like very much for someone to prove me wrong. By the way, what is wrong with being an outsider? Don Jones 'Yellow' Press Dear Editor: Normally, I am one of those who sit back and read what others have to say without taking tak-ing any action for direct re-buttle, re-buttle, but Mr. Briscoe's editor- typical names that the firmly entrenched "left wing" is continually con-tinually accusing the "radical-right" "radical-right" of displaying. I can well imagine that if Mr. Gus Hall of the American Communist party and Mr. Robert Welch of the John Birch Society were invited to speak at the University Uni-versity there would be a wide divergence in the editorial greeting that Mr. Briscoe would extend to each. Mr. Hall's appearance, ap-pearance, I believe, would be lauded as showing the "true freedom of thought" extended by the "open-minded," Mr. Welch, I'm sure, would be branded as a bigot, etc. I personally think that he has severaly insulted Edward P. Morgan by implying that the only way he can be considered great is upon the slandered body of opposing newsmen. I hope before Mr. Briscoe is turned loose upon the world someone instructs him that bigotry is two-edged. P. T Thevenin |
