Nothing fair about FAIR

I would like to comment on Burt Constable's article of Saturday, Oct. 17, in which he gave credence to the organization FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) fair.com. The site was designed by the May First Technology Collective. Ah, May 1, the day when people march for Communism.

In checking out FAIR, it claims to expose neglected news stories. So I extensively searched both their Web sites to see if they exposed the neglected news story about the Taxpayer March on Washington, D.C., Sept. 12. These two organizations did not even mention it on their Web sites. The march should have been on nightly news and on the front page of newspapers.

Hundreds of thousands of people were marching. I was there. It lasted over six hours. A writer from The Wall Street Journal said that he lived in Washington and thought he would go over and have a look. His estimate was in the hundreds of thousands. A UK newspaper did a study and said 2 million.

Buses carrying marchers from states across the country at one point were told they couldn't enter the city because they had no place left to park them. The people got off and walked to the march. Others flew in from Alaska and Hawaii. I marched next to several Cubans who had lived under Castro. There were other people of color marching and a couple from England who have socialized medicine and think our country is falling apart with the current administration.

So much for fairness and accuracy in reporting. Often the far-out groups pick such innocuous names for their organizations to give themselves an undeserved air of respectability.

Janet Garman

Huntley