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In reference to the current furor over Mike Brown’s junk cars, I respectfully invite you to reconsider your use of terms in your coverage such as “rusting hulks” and “battered and rusting junkers.”
This is an opinion rather than a fact and does not belong in a news article. To some they may be rusted hulks, to others many of them represent an important form of recycling that offers the reuse of parts without further need for the potential pollution and exhaustion of resources that is involved in manufacture.
Further, I object to the inference that Mike Brown is a scofflaw to be reigned in by the
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