NWA LETTERS

‘So-called right’ wrong in backing president

This is concerning a letter [“Left-wingers’ wrong ideas will do damage to nation, Dec. 5] from Mr. [Dale] Lange, because he must just be watching “Fox and Friends,” which I wouldn’t watch because that news team is helping Trump poison the people’s minds, and with this letter I read, I’m afraid it’s working.

When I see a letter calling my party the left-wingers, it makes me think the person who wrote it must think they’re on the right side. If the so-called right side was worried about our social fabric or our religious values, then why are they backing a man who can’t tell the truth, lives for greed, condones murder, takes children from their parents (which is kidnapping) and don’t forget about having ties to a Communist country? This man has hurt this country worse than Nixon, which this American didn’t think could ever happen. And still, the so-called right is backing this man.

I can’t write or say his name without being sick for my country and sorry for the next president who has to put it back together again. It won’t be like putting Humpty Dumpty back together again.

If the so-called right is worried about our religious fiber, then they should pick up their Bibles and read them. It’s all in there. Don’t kill. Don’t lie. Love one another and pray for those who are lost. Everyone will stand in judgment. And it also says in the Bible that no one isn’t a sinner. Throw the first stone and see what it gets you, or do what the Word says. Get on your knees and pray for our country.

Mr. Lange is not the judge.

BILLY LONG Fayetteville

School leaders make bad call on news story

Could it be that super sensitive school administration can’t seem to abide one word of negativity and view their school newspaper as a public relations rag? Stop the presses, because that’s not journalism.

As a recently retired high school newspaper adviser, I understand administrators (principals and superintendents) who want to maintain some control, but that’s where they might consider a positive relationship with the newspaper staff and adviser, and simply ask for a heads up on controversial stories. That’s how we rolled at Fayetteville High for 18 years while I was adviser. In my last year, number 19, I was ordered to allow our principal to review each article and opinion piece BEFORE publication. He viewed this as being an editor while I viewed it as prior restraint. The law enacted in 1995 states specific grounds for halting student publications.

None of those reasons existed at Har-Ber, but administration did it nonetheless because someone might get their feelings hurt.

This is a student newspaper and a teaching tool. But the story is now a lot bigger since administration decided to pull the plug on the paper instead of just letting the story go.

What are administrators truly teaching our student reporters when this is how they treat them?

GENIECE YATES Fayetteville

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