letter to the Globe re its coverage of SNC etc etc.

I emailed this letter to the Public Editor of the Globe yesterday and sent a copy to my very left-wing daughter saying, "Do you approve?" Because I was afraid, as a huge supporter of indigenous rights and women, she'd be offended. She wrote back, "Fuck yeah!" So I guess it met with her approval. What about yours?
Dear Sylvia Stead:

I am not sure if you’re the right person to contact, but please do me the favour of passing this along if you are not. I am severing ties with this once-august newspaper over its slavering coverage of the Lavalin affair, Canada’s pathetic excuse for a scandal. The newspapers and media have behaved abominably from the start, rolling around in the dirt with glee, splashing in the mud of this absurd squabble. I have held my nose for weeks and tried to ignore it, looking past the endless hysterical coverage in a search for real news about issues that really matter to our country. 
But when I saw that you’d published a column comparing Justin Trudeau to Donald Trump, that was the end. Where is journalistic decency? Where are the limits to hyperbole? It’s all about getting clicks now, isn’t it, stoking the outrage machine? And so the more salacious and exaggerated the reporting, the better. A once-proud newspaper has thrown its integrity into the garbage pail. 
May the Globe come to its senses soon and focus on what matters in our country, rather than this appallingly immaterial internecine tempest in a teapot. I’m no longer sure why, but I expected better from the Globe. Shame on you. 
Yours,Beth Kaplan
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Published on April 05, 2019 08:25
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