Salon | Letters to the editor

_______________ OKLAHOMANS TO TOM TOMORROW: YOUR PORN IS AS HIGH AS AN ELEPHANT'S EYE! BY DAWN MacKEEN (05/01/98)

In a way, I feel somewhat responsible for the Tom Tomorrow/Oklahoma Gazette flap, as it was my departure (I left Oklahoma) as the alternative weekly's longtime cartoonist that prompted the paper's decision to pick up the syndicated Tom Tomorrow cartoon. The newspaper's editorial staff should have known better than to run a cartoon titled "This Modern World" in Oklahoma City.
The way I see it, the problem is not the members of Oklahomans for Children and Families (OCAF), who, at least in this instance, merely lack the brain cells essential to understanding satire. The real problem is with publishers who, in their efforts to turn a buck, undermine not only what's left of journalism's tattered reputation, but sell out their communities as well. That this happened at what is allegedly Oklahoma City's "alternative" newspaper -- rather than the city's ultraconservative daily newspaper -- makes the situation even more pathetic.
-- Steve Hill
Dallas
_______________ ONE-MAN RUMOR MILL BITES THE DUST BY DAVID CORN (05/07/98)

David Bossie, the former top investigator for Dan Burton's committee, is a guy who has been trying to discredit Clinton for years. Yesterday I heard him on NPR saying something to the effect that he has been trying to "uncover the truth" about Clinton since 1992. I bet you guys can find a connection between this sleazebag and Richard Mellon Scaife's Arkansas Project. What would the implications be if it's found out that a staffer for a House committee investigating the president has ties to Mellon Scaife's efforts to bring down Bill Clinton?
-- Frances Del Rio
Oakland, Calif.
N E X T+P A G E+| More cheers and jeers for "Tiny, flat-chested and hairless!" by Courtney Weaver

_______________ OKLAHOMANS TO TOM TOMORROW: YOUR PORN IS AS HIGH AS AN ELEPHANT'S EYE! BY DAWN MacKEEN (05/01/98)
	In a way, I feel somewhat responsible for the Tom Tomorrow/Oklahoma Gazette flap, as it was my departure (I left Oklahoma) as the alternative weekly's longtime cartoonist that prompted the paper's decision to pick up the syndicated Tom Tomorrow cartoon. The newspaper's editorial staff should have known better than to run a cartoon titled "This Modern World" in Oklahoma City. The way I see it, the problem is not the members of Oklahomans for Children and Families (OCAF), who, at least in this instance, merely lack the brain cells essential to understanding satire. The real problem is with publishers who, in their efforts to turn a buck, undermine not only what's left of journalism's tattered reputation, but sell out their communities as well. That this happened at what is allegedly Oklahoma City's "alternative" newspaper -- rather than the city's ultraconservative daily newspaper -- makes the situation even more pathetic. -- Steve Hill Dallas
_______________ ONE-MAN RUMOR MILL BITES THE DUST BY DAVID CORN (05/07/98)
	David Bossie, the former top investigator for Dan Burton's committee, is a guy who has been trying to discredit Clinton for years. Yesterday I heard him on NPR saying something to the effect that he has been trying to "uncover the truth" about Clinton since 1992. I bet you guys can find a connection between this sleazebag and Richard Mellon Scaife's Arkansas Project. What would the implications be if it's found out that a staffer for a House committee investigating the president has ties to Mellon Scaife's efforts to bring down Bill Clinton? -- Frances Del Rio Oakland, Calif. N E X T+P A G E+\| More cheers and jeers for "Tiny, flat-chested and hairless!" by Courtney Weaver