I'm not sure what you'll gain by heaping praise on Harold Pinter, an America hating jerk. In this case, as with most of your editorial opinions, you obviously weren't writing to your readers.

And that's where this paper, and the newspaper industry as a whole, is losing it. You forget your readers in your quest for praise or your politics get in the way of objective reporting.

The vast majority of your readers have high regard for some of the victims of 2008 you noted: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, President Hinckley, even Bill Buckley, Jr.

But that same vast majority would offer no praise, but disdain, for a man outspoken in his hatred for America--Harold Pinter. It makes me sick to my stomach that the editors of the Church's newspaper lowered themselves to this. For what? Praise? How foolish.

As with any business, when you lose touch with your customers, your demise is just around the corner. I wouldn't hang my hopes in LDS readers forever. They're not all gullible.

I encourage the editors to practice a little more common sense and get off this silly habit of praising those who don't deserve it.

Whotta crab.

No one is saying Solzhenitsyn's works aren't beloved or recognized.

Instead you just decide to spew hate of your own.

See, this is the problem with this country. People like you whine and whine about others. If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.

You big whiner you.

Quoting from the editorial: "...had an influence on young playwrights that never can be understated." It seems that in trying to compliment this great man, the editorial actually says that his influence is much less than you might think.

Don't you mean "overstated"?

I find it ironic to praise this world renowned author with an incorrect usage of hyperbole.