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No defense for killing reporters

Published: Sunday, Aug. 5, 2007 12:02 a.m. MDT
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Thank you for including the blurb on the assassination of Chauncey Bailey, editor of the Oakland Post (Aug. 3). I am appalled at the audacity of this public murder and hope that it will not be overlooked nationally because of the undeserved bad press the Bay area receives. Journalists everywhere should be very concerned — not because their own lives might be in more danger, but because this offense flies in the face of the entire process of American free press and its patron constitutional amendment of freedom of speech.

No personal or political reason justifies killings of reporters from any part of society — here or in foreign countries.

Why couldn't the killer just have written a letter to the editor?

Will Pearson

West Jordan

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