Letter shows sad state of journalistic ethics

It was with great sadness that I observed the Nevada Appeal's latest decision to print hate filled commentary on the editorial page. This Sunday morning, July 9, I woke to find the letter, "Holocaust receives too much coverage," a letter clearly written from the perspective of hate. The letter even states, after a long, inaccurate tirade against Jews, "don't call me an Anti-Semite, I don't feel any hatred for Arabs."

Is there is an atmosphere of intolerance at the Nevada Appeal which boils over into the editorial page? You should be ashamed of yourselves! An opinion is one thing, the printing of obvious hate speech against Jews (or any other group) is quite another.

It says in your letters to the Editor policy statement: "The decision is print any submission is completely at the discretion of each newspaper's editor Form letters and letters considered libelous, obscene or in bad taste will not be printed."

If the editor of the Nevada Appeal refuses to see a letter which even advertises its own hate, as libelous, obscene, or in bad taste, I have grave concerns for the rest of what appears in our morning paper. Clearly, journalistic ethics have fallen to a new low.