POST “LETTER TO MEDIA” September 5, 2019

As expected, the letter I am sending you was ignored by the media.
A gutless performance by the Vancouver Sun and the Grand Forks Gazette but hardly
surprising.
The sermon from the mount for another day is thanks to a message from John
Mechan’s recent book, The Soul of America, the Battle For Our Better Angels” (page
270).
“Evan with their manifold failings, journalists who seek to report and to illuminate
rather than to opine and to divide are crital to democracy”. T.R. (Teddy Roosevelt)
“Publicity is the very soul of justice” the English philosopher, Jeremy Bentham wrote “It
is the keenest spur to exertion and the surest of all guards against impropriety without
publicity, all other checks are fruitless: in comparison with publicity, all other
checks are of small account”.
The Vancouver Sun editorial board is a shadow of their past history when they
were one of the media companies diligently reporting the Clayquot protests in the 80s
and 90s. Buzz words from the Wikipedia Clayquot protests:
“The logging protests and blockades received worldwide mass media attention.”
“Media attention began to focus on the perceived unfairness of the mass arrests.”