NEGATIVE-LEANING

Regarding Public Editor Ted Vaden's Sept. 10 column "A conservative
Locke on the paper?" no worries about The N&O seemingly leaning to
the right. There are examples in every issue.

Case in point: The Sept. 14 article "Control of Afghanistan slips."
Of all the material available on the wire, the N&O decides to print a
Cox News Service article citing [in part] experts from a European
(French) think tank opining that the United States has lost control
in Afghanistan.

Make no mistake, Afghanistan is not stable and is still a dangerous
place, but it's no more difficult to Google "Good News from
Afghanistan" and get credible (at least as credible as the Senlis
Council) information on progress being made by and for the people of
that beleaguered land than it is to pull a negative expert warning of
impending collapse.

So far, Raleigh is still not in France. Maybe a little too close to
Chapel Hill, but that's another discussion.

Barry Brown

Raleigh