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By LEE BIRD
Rappahannock Neva Contributing Writer
By the time this letter is published, the elections will be over and the results will have become history.
However, the political process will not have been completed. Political discussion should therefore continue, since our country has many issues that must be resolved. With that thought in mind, I would like to answer some of the arguments made in the Rappahannock News’ letters section last week.
First, the News was criticized for endorsing Mr. Smith for Congress, with the thought that a newspaper could not do so without surrendering its objectivity. The lamentation that the Democrats could not find a candidate to challenge Mr. Warner in the Senate race seemed to the writer to compound the News’ lack of objectivity.
These arguments are readily answered. The opinions of the editor were expressed only in the Editorial column. The news columns and coverage were balanced and fair; there has been no complaint on that score.
It is not only customary, but also consistent with a newspaper’s devotion to objectivity, for that paper to express its editors opinions in political and other matters (such as widening U.S. 211, for example), so long as they are confined to the Editorial column. The News has always been open to letters expressing opposing views.
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