Rally was about more than one person’ s experience

Re: Rally speakers pat on( July 23,2016) A casual reader of this story would probably not know that the Black Lives Matter rally was peaceful and uneventful, given the reporter’ s focus on an isolated issue that followed the rally, rather than the event itself, an error in judgement that was compounded by your choice of headline.

While sensationalism no doubt sells more copies in a troubled market for print media, it does no service to a community that is entitled to see social reality reflected accurately.

Good reporting of local events require diligences as well as a sense of the wider ramifications of how information is selected and used. Visible minorities in Peter borough deserve as much from their local newspaper. Peter Laurie, Aberdeen Ave.