An excellent piece of journalism

THE EDITOR, Madam:

THE ARTICLE about the KPH in The Gleaner from August 15 was a first class piece of journalism! And praiseworthy, too the series about crocodiles and people in the Black river area.

This kind of journalism the reader expects from a good newspaper. Boring, however, are all these columns of your columnists. They are too predictable: the PNP-guy or the disappointed JLP- guy writes against Seaga and his JLP; the Labourite writes against the PNP; the NDM-guy against the two other parties... When the columnists are going ... on holidays they waste the reader's time with boring articles about Southern France or Honolulu; thus the reader skims over advertisements and columns and waits for real journalism, background journalism, investigative journalism.

Please, have more of that. And when The Gleaner (or Observer or whatever paper) brings news from the Caribbean or overseas why this paper prints all these superfluous clips about traffic-accidents in India, murder in Barbados, burglary in Trinidad, divorces of so-called movie-stars etc.? Why does the paper not try to educate and inform the reader about countries abroad? background information, please, not only bad and sad 'news'.

I am etc.,

P.P. ZAHL

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