Re: “Nelson dished negative ink,” January 30
Shouldn’t we see the National Post’s so-called reporting on Nelson as pretty predictable? This is a paper, after all, that almost always has an axe to grind. And a somewhat free-spirited, slightly bohemian city such as Nelson, which is a stronghold of the NDP, is certainly not to be in the Post’s good books. One of the Post’s missions is to expose what it sees as the hypocrisy and muddled thinking of people claiming to be “progressive” or, worse, left-wingers. “Fairness” was in no way the purpose of the Post’s story on dogs in Nelson. Though, to be fair to the Post, it did point out that one police officer on the beat had never issued a fine to any errant dog walker — suggesting that the whole matter hardly warranted front page coverage.
Nelson, we all know, has its problems. It’s unlikely, though, that any scrutiny from the National Post will help us sort things out.
Robert Malcolmson
Nelson