Stone’s Not Alone

When I read the first letter in last Sunday’s Calendar, I trembled with fear. You actually printed something that didn’t attempt to stomp Oliver Stone into the muddy offal of popular journalism. After weeks of Op-Ed savagery coupled with the unrelenting efforts of virtually every columnist in the major media to send “JFK” to an early grave, I was unprepared for a positive disposition toward such an obviously unpalatable subject.

My faith in the objectivity of The Times’ objectionable journalism was restored when I realized that you had vindicated the official policy of the popular media by printing every other letter as a response to any positive notions one might have mistakenly garnered from reading the first letter. I even got the impression that some of your Stone critics had seen the film.

But obviously, that is unnecessary. Character assassination requires nothing more than blind hatred and in the media’s case a typewriter and paper, as opposed to political assassination, which demands visual acuity and superior aim, which all available evidence suggests that Lee Harvey Oswald was sorely lacking.

CRAIG SIMMONS

Van Nuys