Letter: Too few anti-Clinton letters making in newspaper, reader says

The count on Clinton behavior letters was 3-0 in favor of Clinton. This is a complete reversal of the counts of other newspapers that I have sampled in Illinois, Indiana, Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia, some of which have been supportive of Clinton in the past. Most of the letters in those papers naively blamed Clinton for his misbehavior, not Starr.

Is it possible that all of the letters sent to the Sun that expressed the thought that what Clinton did was a disgrace to the United States ended up on the cutting room floor.

The other possibility is that the Sun's bias is so well recognized in Las Vegas that no one believes in wasting the time to prepare a letter that is predestined to end up in the circular file before editorial review or on the floor of the cutting room after editorial review.

The statistical odds of the 3-0 count are astronomical as are the odds of this letter being published in the Sun.

George P. Dix

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