Car & Driver More Honest Than LAT

Sunday came and went without any additional letters to the editor in the LAT about Barbara Demmick's North Korea Without the Rancor piece. The LAT editorial page would have us believe that it received not a single negative letter in response to Demmick's conveyance of NoKo Information Ministry messaging to us.

Worse, they would have us believe that the one letter they published, which chided Bush and said nothing negative about NoKo, was respresentative of the public view.

They should take a lesson from Car & Driver.

C&D recently published a comparison of the new Ford Mustang and the new Pontiac GTO. The GTO out-hustled, out-handled and out-ergonomicked the Mustang, but the Mustang got just enough subjective "gotta have it factor" votes to eak out a one-point victory.

Why is this relevant?

Because in this month's C&D, they ran nine letters on the comparo, all blasting C&D for its obvious bias. Letter number nine, which simply said, "I'm so angry I could vomit," was followed by this editor's note:

And so were a lot of other readers. We haven't gotten so much outraged mail since [the editor] thought "fourgasm" would be a funny word to put on the cover. At last count, the number of readers agreeing with our Mustang winner numbered two; those opposed, 123.

Would that the LAT would be as honest with its readers.