November 23, 2007

Do You Know Who I Am?

Do You Know Who I Am?

Diane Clark says of Joan Kennedy, "She has a disease. If someone had
cancer, would you (the Herald) splash that headline across your front page? Why
humiliate her and her family?" ("Go easy on Joan K," Letter, Boston Herald,
November 23, 2007, page 26) Why should Joan Kennedy get preferential treatment
over ordinary persons accused of mental illness? Whenever a person is arrested
his alleged mental illness is "splashed across the [front pages]" of the Herald
and other newspapers humiliating him and his family. And he cannot say, "Do you
know who I am?"

Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM

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