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Problematic Placement
While I appreciate your coverage of the 12,000-flags project with a photo [Metro, Nov. 30], I take exception to the photo's placement within an article on HIV-AIDS. The flags, as your caption correctly stated, represented the number of military personnel thrown out of the services under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
With rare exception, these service members were thrown out solely because they were gay. "Don't ask, don't tell" is a government-sanctioned policy of job discrimination and needs to be repealed, a position The Post has supported in numerous editorials.
Putting the flag photo in a story about HIV-AIDS showed a huge lack of understanding about "don't ask, don't tell" and HIV-AIDS. While both are important issues, this type of reporting serves only to perpetuate the myth that HIV-AIDS is predominantly a gay disease.
-- Joan E. Darrah
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Arlen SpecterIsFunny
Gene Weingarten's critical Nov. 18 column in the Magazine certainly missed the audience's loud and long laughter in response to Sen. Arlen Specter's humor in the charity celebrity contest. Readers can judge for themselves by viewing the performance on YouTube, which has had more than 12,000 hits. Keith Olbermann featured part of it on MSNBC, and Philadelphia's CBS radio station played the entire soundtrack with riotous responses.
-- Kate Kelly
