Letter: Casino gambling? I don’t want to see it!
For the Monitor
Friday, June 7, 2013
Re “Cashing in” (Sunday Monitor front page, May 19):
Recently I started going out of my way to purchase the Concord Monitor. I used to think it was the most representative news in the New Hampshire area. And when my place of work stopped having papers available on Sundays, I had a store save the paper for me and dedicate an extra half-hour to receive it.
I expected to see on the front page pictures of New Hampshire places in spring, events, graduation pictures, or just about anything displaying how New Hampshire is attractive. Instead there were gambling pictures. Featured were pictures of lifeless-looking people looking attached to gambling machines. These pictures were from another state!
Truly, using pictures as a trick to get attention to something that does not reflect New Hampshire is an atrocity. I would not want our children to see the pictures you featured on gambling.
The reporting was also biased. Even inside the paper the pictures of graduates didn’t get the focus the Monitor placed on gambling.
I don’t plan to pay for another newspaper unless it represents the best on the front page, particularly of our fine state.
Citizens and politicians, don’t gamble with our state! I am so disappointed that the paper highlighted support for gambling in a featured way as though this is what the Granite State is about and is willing to give up what we have. Just because the stone face of Franconia Notch is gone doesn’t mean we have no values in our state.
SANDRA COOPER
Thornton
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