Underfed readers

July 4, 2009

THANK YOU, Scot Lehigh, for exposing the annoying orgy of Michael Jackson coverage. Instead, it would have been nice if more media outlets turned their attention to last month’s United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report that more than 1 billion people are starving to death, and that that’s an 11 percent jump from last year. News of this world epidemic of hunger should blare from every front page. Politicians should be inveighing against it; commentators should be discussing it before a camera.

It would be refreshing if our children could read news conducive to improving our world, rather than nauseating adulation of someone with whom they might not have been safe with alone.

Patricia McCarron
North Andover