In regard to the March 22 edition of The Standard-Times, I would like to voice my objection to a piece that appeared as a feature article on the front page of that edition.

This was an obituary tribute to a man named Shawn Poirier titled, “Witches mourn their king.”

This particular article included a large-scale color photo of two crying witches mourning this man at the funeral home, a smaller insert of the man himself, as well as a rather lengthy article on the man’s life and his particular belief system which continued onto another page, and was accompanied by yet another large-scale photo of more mourning witches.

In my opinion, this type of news is something that would have been more appropriately issued forth in a trade magazine or newsletter for witches and proponents of the occult, and does not merit front-page exposure of this magnitude in a mainstream newspaper such as The Standard-Times.

Whatever this man might have been to his family, friends and followers, I can certainly respect that, but to have this particular paper display all of this as front-page, headline news, in my view, is inappropriate.

It is my opinion that an obituary article would have been more appropriately placed on the obituary page of this paper since the man was a native of this city.

In my view, more discretion should have been exercised here by the editor as to how and where an article such as this should have appeared in The Standard-Times.

Colleen Gordon

Fairhaven

Source

• LETTER: Witches on Page 1?. (2007, April 1). SouthCoast Today, MA. Retrieved April 1, 2007.

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