John Robinson's column, "It's the end of the Times..." (May 22, News & Record) is certainly a sad sign of the times. The dumbing down of the populace, so prevalent on TV, now has reached the News & Record.
For some time, we have had to go to pages 2, 3, 4 or more to even tell that we are at war. We really have to search to find out if a day has passed without casualties in Iraq or Afghanistan. Very little news of other parts of the world, or the United States for that matter, is revealed. The absence of syndicated columnists Thomas Friedman, Bob Herbert and Maureen Dowd leaves a void of expert commentary on national and world events.
Thanks to the Internet, we can still learn what goes on outside Guilford County.
Ed Travis
Greensboro
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This is probably the third instance in which I have read about someone mourning the loss of Thomas Friedman. In my opinion the paper cut costs in exactly the right place. What is the point of reading an editorial that is always going to be the same opinion about the same subject. Thomas Friedman is openly one sided and racist. He ties everything he writes into support of Israel and hatred of Arabs, good or bad. Who needs to read what he has to write? It is going to inevitably be about the same thing every single time. Cheers NEWS AND RECORD, I am glad Mr Friedman is gone, wish you did it sooner.
Posted by Shereef Juma | June 2, 2005 11:39 AM