To the Editor:
The kindly attempt of Michael Beckley '96 to inform the world that The Dartmouth Review was a bastion of "tabloid journalism" surprised me. Not that I necessarily disagree with his opinions, but that he found it necessary to point this fact out to the Dartmouth community, this having been long since realized by myself and, I presumed, the rest of Dartmouth.
That he should find it necessary to point out an unabashed "lack of journalistic ethics" seems somewhat redundant when speaking of The Review.It seems to me that people either laugh at the majority of The Review's articles as hopelessly absurd and puerile or are of such a particular political opinion that Beckley's cries of tabloid journalism are unlikely to sway their beliefs. It seems to me that The Review's lack of ethics is neither more new nor newsworthy than the lack of journalistic ethics of The National Enquirer or similar tabloids.
I will simply go on reading The Dartmouth Review anyhow, grinning gleefully at the amusement it offers, regardless of its faults.
