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Unfair, unbalanced, unjust

| July 27, 2005 11:00 PM

The recent PBS documentary about the beautiful Flathead Valley in northwest Montana was very unfair.

The liberal slant toward the left-wing viewpoint, I feel depicts the PBS liberal bias as well as presents one of the most honorable and magnificent world locations and its residents very negatively.

The commentary following the environmentalists death or murder implied here shows a one sided description of what happened, and I dislike the innuendo throughout the entire 50-minute "documentary."

I owned property in the lovely Flathead and have been going out there since 1989. I know and love the many honest, dependable and very caring people who live there year round.

My degrees in journalism brought up the anger I felt all day yesterday after I viewed the slanted, unfair description of the Flathead and its people.

When I studied journalism back in the 1950s, I learned over and over we reporters had to be "unbiased, objective, present both sides fairly."

I certainly saw a major shift in this '50s journalism standards approach with the PBS "documentary."

Please insist that PBS rectify this unfairness, and please pull public funding from PBS and NPR, both groups that couldn't find the other side of the reporting coin with both hands.

Suzanne Eovaldi

Port St. Lucie, Fla.