To the editors:
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Nick Watters [Letters, September 13] expressed disapproval at David Whiteis’s description of Cookie of Maxwell Street [August 30], finding David’s observations in such bad taste that he concluded by making snide remarks about his mental condition. The implication was that in a healthy and tasteful society, when confronted with a less privileged life, the proper behavior is to ignore it. Perhaps Nick would also approve of a discussion that laid the blame for a person’s unprivileged position solely on the shoulders of others, and does not admit of any qualities in such a person that would be distasteful to the refined portion of the Reader audience, but he did not directly say so. The main idea was that the primary duty of good journalism is to adhere to certain aesthetic standards, and that any transgression of these standards is the act of a man not fit for society.
Adam McKeown
