The lack of sensitivity to a diversified population as well as to your readership requires your immediate attention and action.
I would hope that your advertisers would also bring to your attention how inappropriate this humor really is. An apology to our community and its elected leaders is in order. We would also request that you review the motivations of the individuals responsible for this feeble attempt at humor.
We shall explore the possibility with other community-based organizations to determine if a major effort is required to discourage the general public (your readers) and advertisers from doing business with your newspaper and company. In 1994 this type of journalism will not be tolerated by any community!
Thomas Gomez, President
National Image, Inc.
All Things Are Relative
The Aguirre family would like to thank you for the story your paper did on our family, "Writes of Passage" in the April 27 issue. Robin Chotzinoff did a tremendous job of piecing together the conflict and humor of our family. Also, we would like to thank you and your readers for the support throughout the years; hopefully, it will continue for many more!
In regard to the May 11 letter criticizing Robin for not doing her homework on Lazaro Cardenas: Beto Aguirre (our father/grandfather) was indeed threatened by former president Cardenas, who was a party member of the P.R.I. and had a cousin who was governor of the state of Michoacan whose term was about to end. Beto supported the incumbent and ran his initial campaign for governor. When election time came for Franco Rodriguez, Beto opposed him and the president-elect. Policies.
You see, in Mexico a person can only serve one term in office, but Rodriguez was a member of the P.R.I. and was supported by the former president. That is when conflict arose between La Antena De Michoacan and the P.R.I. One thing to note is that President Cardenas was a native of Michoacan, and he owned almost all of the printing presses in that state, including, coincidentally, the one that published Beto's newspaper. That is why he was instructed to stop criticizing the favored candidates or leave.
We apologize for any misunderstanding.
Virgilio and Oscar Javier Aguirre
Denver
Mom and Pop
Regarding Michael Roberts's "Spellbound" in the May 4 issue:
It was delightful to read about the aspiring band, Spell. They have worked long and hard and perhaps will put Denver on the map in the arena of rock music. It would seem, however, that they need to understand how revealing language is in terms of intelligence, articulation and even sensitivity. I believe each one of them has those characteristics, but unfortunately that was not evident from the quotes in the article. That's a shame.
Carla Beckman (Tim's mom)
Westminster
Everything You Ever Wanted
to Know About X
To: Steve Hensley
From: A Degenerate Hippie Regarding your May 11 letter to Westword about Kurt Cobain's suicide: Oh, puh-leez! Maybe you should smoke some pot and lighten up.
Amelia F. Schwartz
Denver
