A letter to the editor in today's Journal Gazette caught the Maven's eye.
Making no judgment about the letter writer's arguments, referring to a US Senator and candidate for Indiana governor as Senator BLOWHARD, seemed out of place.
The Maven has blurred the name and hometown of the letter writer because that is not the issue here.
The issue is that the Journal Gazette seems to have relaxed its Letter To The Editor standards to allow name-calling and ad-hominem attacks.
Many years ago the Maven, writing under his legal name, penned a caustic letter regarding a "blowhard" member of the Fort Wayne City Council. I called the man "Councilman Blowhard". The letter was rejected, noting that calling someone a "blowhard" and "idiot", constituted an ad hominem attack on the individual, and could not be printed.
So, the question is: Has the JG changed its rules?
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