Misplaced media priorities

Misplaced media priorities

EDITOR:

Your Dec. 2 editorial page cartoon of the electronic media ignoring President Obama’s announcement of plans for Afghanistan in favor of a focus on Tiger Woods was a scathingly accurate portrayal of our national press.

Apparently, manufacturing stories about the private affairs of sports stars is easier work than examining why we continue to give our sons and daughters up to war. Tiger’s troubles are his own. That he happens to be one of the greatest golfers in the sport does not make him fair game for salacious media coverage.

The loss of brave men and women to a war of questionable value is of national importance and deserves all the light the media can shed upon it. A minor automobile accident does not deserve coverage beyond the facts of what happened regardless of how many self-important talking heads try to make it so.

JIM CARTWRIGHT

Canfield