Editing process smelt of subtle censorship
This did not help the line of reasoning I was trying to pursue.
But other changes were made for which there was no reason, either legal or grammatical. It appeared you were working to an agenda. I can only guess what this was. The whole affair smells of censorship in a very subtle form.
Whenever I read a newspaper now or hear a news bulletin, I am horrified at the blatant bias against Sinn Féin by almost all media and most politicians.
I don’t know whether Sinn Féin are guilty as charged. I will wait until they have their day in court, and the evidence produced to convict them, if such exists.
In the meantime I will grant them the presumption of innocence, which is your right, my right, and their right.
On March 9, you published across your front page what you described as the “full text of the IRA statement.”
Interestingly, you omit the text detailing the outcome of the internal IRA disciplinary procedure, and the text of that part of the statement where they said they were prepared to shoot the guilty parties. Instead you gave us a summary in two lines of heavy type across the middle of the page.
Apparently you are all prepared to believe this statement down to the last full stop, but when the IRA deny involvement in the Northern Bank robbery, none of you is prepared to believe a word.
Michael Corish
Kilmoylan
Doon
Co Limerick
