HONEST REPORTING ON THE DRUG WAR

To the editor:

I appreciate the fair and balanced reporting that The Monitor does on
the drug war.

I read your story on the young man that killed his mother
("24-year-old confesses to murdering his mother," Feb. 1). You
resisted the temptation to imply that drugs caused this young man to
kill his mother, even if he himself would make that excuse.

Other newspapers (such as the Houston Chronicle) use misleading
headlines and lie by omission to sensationalize our country's drug
war. I am glad The Monitor still has its integrity and is an honest
source for news.

Tammera Halphen

Houston