Why print bigoted columnist?
Published 2:30 pm Saturday, January 2, 2016
Dear Editor,
If your paper had a regular column in which the writer routinely claimed that all Jews, all blacks, all atheists, all Hindus or all Methodists were lunatics out to kill and maim any and all Americans, some of your readers might consider him to be an unwholesome bigot, and they would be right. Yet you regularly print the unrepentant bigot William Slusher and his not-very-cleverly disguised implication that ALL Muslims are intent on murder and mayhem (including grade-school children, William?).
The obvious question is why do you print these, including his latest hate-message? Does he have some controlling financial interest in the newspaper? One Donald Trump at a time is enough.
John Connot
Everett, Washington
About Gary DeVon
Gary DeVon is the managing editor of the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune and celebrated his 25th year at the newspaper in August 2012. He graduated from Gonzaga University with a degree in Communications - Print Journalism, with an emphasis in photojournalism. He is a proud alumnus of Oroville High School. His family first settled in Okanogan County in the late 1800s. His parents are Judy DeVon and the late Larry DeVon and he has two younger brothers - Dante and Michael. Many family members still call Oroville home. He has a grown daughter, Segornae Douglas and a young granddaughter, Erin.
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