To the editor,
Who are you and what have you done with [editor] Barry Link?
Something is different about the Courier and it sucks. In [the last] issue, the front-page article is a giant advertorial for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games — bad enough, but it also says, “the sun shined for two weeks.” Did we do away with “shone?”
The other front-page article (on the Telus screen downtown) reports its “view-line study” but skips any news about its environmental effects, i.e. birds, and avoids discussion of why we need to be involuntarily exposed to video screens outside anyway. Is it because Telus Gardens’ developer gets bored on a wet Wednesday night just “walking home in the middle of winter?” Is there something wrong with her phone? And does that mean the screen is not going to run in the spring, summer and fall?
So those sucked, then I couldn’t find Kudos & Kvetches, the centre spread was devoted to private school ads, you printed two comments about the Tragically Hip concert from people who didn’t even attend it. I was there and it was great.
These are not good trends. Please don’t go downhill. You’re the only Vancouver news organ I trust(ed).
(On the plus side, you still had Geoff Olson and Mike Howell.)
Pat Dobie, Vancouver
