As a journalist I can tell you confidently that no credible newspaper that you will ever hope to work for would print the F-word.

Even CNN does not use this word on the air.

We applaud your effort to print the truth especially in these days of biased news reporting. However, some things add little to the story.

For example, a few years ago in my home city, a young girl was brutally raped and killed.

What was left out is that the criminal who did this also tried to rip her arms off. My question is does adding this make the story “better” because it is more accurate or does it just sensationalize the story and cause more pain and grief for people?

If you need more proof of responsibility in reporting look to Steven Spielberg. He said in an interview that while his movie “Schindler’s List” was graphic and showed many horrors that occurred in Nazi Germany, he left out certain things because the images would be too disturbing and were unnecessary to provide people with an understanding of the whole story.

Printing “F$%# dry Veishea” is not sugar coating, it is just showing the truth without resorting to cheap tabloid journalism.

Again we express our hope that this is not the best that the journalism department at ISU has to produce.

Jon Christiansen

Julie Christiansen

Alumni

Ft. Bragg, North Carolina