Left, Right - Los Angeles Times

Left, Right - Los Angeles Times


Play all audios:

Loading...

Why is it necessary for presumably objective journalists to characterize Nicaragua as “leftist” when noting that Nicaragua opposed the invasion of Panama by rightist United States military


aggressors (“World Reaction to Noriega’s Arrest,” Jan. 5)? Centrist Spain, left-centrist Mexico and the leftist Soviet Union also opposed the intervention, but their political persuasions


were not worthy of comment. Your staff even failed to observe the “rightishness” of Britain, Japan and Thailand. SPENCE CARLSEN Granada Hills MORE TO READ