{"id":375,"date":"2004-08-25T10:24:09","date_gmt":"2004-08-25T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/two-good-letters-re-the-not-so-swift\/"},"modified":"2004-08-25T10:24:09","modified_gmt":"2004-08-25T17:24:09","slug":"two-good-letters-re-the-not-so-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/two-good-letters-re-the-not-so-swift\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Good Letters RE: The Not-So-Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a> Opinion &gt; Kerry and the Swift Boat Ads (6 Letters)&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/24\/opinion\/l24swift.html?<\/p>\n<p>ex=1251086400&amp;en=4c94acc5b848c744&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&#8221;&gt;The New York Times &gt; Opinion &gt; Kerry and the Swift <\/p>\n<p>Boat Ads (6 Letters)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To the Editor:<\/p>\n<p>John Kerry fought in the war and then returned to try to convince our government to stop <\/p>\n<p>the endless and needless bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p>That was an honorable thing to do. Those who criticize him for learning from his experience in the <\/p>\n<p>field and then using that experience to help the antiwar effort do a great disservice to those patriots who forced our government to end <\/p>\n<p>an unjust war.<\/p>\n<p>Marc J. Osterweil<br \/>\nNew Kingston, N.Y., Aug. 22, 2004<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nTo the Editor:<\/p>\n<p>An Aug. 21 news analysis suggests that <\/p>\n<p>John Kerry made a strategic error by not promptly rebutting the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth&#8217;s attacks. But might not he have made a <\/p>\n<p>principled decision to stick to the high road and to resist efforts to drag his campaign into the mud? More important is why many news <\/p>\n<p>outlets reported the Swift boat veterans&#8217; allegations as if they were true, or why tapes of veterans &#8220;speaking coolly and directly to <\/p>\n<p>the camera&#8221; found their way into TV news reports.<\/p>\n<p>The real problem is not with Mr. Kerry&#8217;s decision but with the fact that the press <\/p>\n<p>effectively provided free campaign advertising for his attackers. Perhaps hoping to appear balanced, the press has once again failed to <\/p>\n<p>investigate and report the facts.<\/p>\n<p>Richard B. Miller<br \/>\nBloomington, Ind., Aug. 21, 2004<br \/>\nThe writer is the director of the Poynter <\/p>\n<p>Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion &gt; Kerry and the Swift Boat Ads (6 Letters)&#8221; href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/24\/opinion\/l24swift.html? ex=1251086400&amp;en=4c94acc5b848c744&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&#8221;&gt;The New York Times &gt; Opinion &gt; Kerry and the Swift Boat Ads (6 Letters) To the Editor: John Kerry fought in the war and then returned to try to convince our government to stop the endless and needless bloodshed. That was an honorable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/two-good-letters-re-the-not-so-swift\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Good Letters RE: The Not-So-Swift<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}