Dear HCN,
You owe Jon Marvel an
apology (HCN, 8/2/99). It was irresponsible of you to have
published an unattributed quotation comparing him to a war
criminal. As an editor, I consider it a libelous
statement.
Jon Marvel is motivated by love of the
West – the land and the people, including future generations – in
his fine environmental conservation work. You correctly point this
out later in your article.
I am a member of Idaho
Watersheds Project because I believe in the goals of preserving
land and water in the West from overgrazing and because of the
smart and imaginative, caring, humorous, calm, and persevering ways
Jon Marvel has gone about achieving the goals of environmental
conservation.
Teresa
Jesionowski
Ithaca, New
York
The writer is a senior
manuscript editor for Cornell University
Press.
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Irresponsible journalism.
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