Dear Editor:
It is with anticipated pleasure that I read the Advertiser each week.
Last week I read with gratitude the empathetic article on Mathias Bunyan, the excellent editorial which commended the unsung selflessness of serving on council, the flagellating Letters to the Editor, about Kelly and the Carpenter, and of course the obituaries.
These many unique features combine to make the Advertiser a one-of-a-kind locally driven newspaper. As a community we should acknowledge the quality of this paper, as small papers which report on local news are fast becoming extinct.
Obviously there can never be a happy balance when granting equal space to people who challenge the ever-changing notions of truth, and those who wish to rectify false information. To weigh in on contentious issues is a mine field and one which no matter how carefully the information is presented, will always be challenged.
I trust this paper and the contributors; especially when the editor treads that information mine field of opinion. We are not “a mindless herd” succumbing to hysteria, we clearly see the direction of our moral and physical world. Dialogue among us all is desperately important as our ideological differences are not as vast as they may seem; we are all good people.
If an editor’s note is required then I will read it with the same interest as the letter that prompted it.
Michele MacRae,
Fergus