This letter is a response to both letters asserting that the readers should have known the column about interracial marriage was satire. Are they honestly suggesting that every time crazy and illogical columns are published in the Daily the readers should just know it is satire, or that they should research random websites to find out if it is satire? Give me a break.

Why should the readers have to do research to find out what the newspaper is doing? Isn’t that the opposite of a newspaper’s purpose? And how should the readers have just known it was satire? When did the Daily become the “Colbert Report”?

And for God’s sake, this is the same paper that hired a person that claims health care shouldn’t be provided because people will act irresponsibly and that people should not freak out when nooses and KKK-style hoods are placed on statues. This is also the same paper that last year published ads claiming the Holocaust was a hoax.

How in the world are we supposed to know the article on interracial marriage was satire, but the ad denying the Holocaust was real? Ironically, you claim to be informing the public. Wow.

Dan Brown is a 2008 alumnus.