To the editor:

A recent article in Laredo Morning Times attributed to the Associated Press convinces me that the average reader needs to understand more about how low the national media has sunk to saturate our minds with exaggerated evils that seem to have overwhelmed the world.

My reference in this case is to the ballyhoo that a woman was able to create by arousing questionable supporters to rally on the steps of the Colorado state capitol to demand that the U.S. government devote more attention (money, manpower, etc) to recovering her husband’s remains from the hands of the “enemy.”

First, he was not a “warrior” killed in the service of his country.

He was the mystery man who was presumed to have been killed by Mexican drug cartel(s) for being in a dangerous place where he didn’t belong (the Mexican side of a nearby lake).

Suddenly hundreds of the carnivorous, news-starved media pounced on the story as if the king of Siam had been assassinated.

Thank goodness for our ever-faithful U.S. Congress, which is always ready to take over the “BS” headlines.

If a sane person took any of this jazz seriously, he would stop hitting his head with a hammer because it feels so good when he stops. ’Nuff said?


Clifford A. Gibeaut