Suspension of Doonesbury
I have seen the strips your editors have labeled “overdrawn and unfair.” They are not.
Presenting a list of individuals within the Reagan Administration who have been charged with various types of official misconduct is not only high comedy in Trudeau’s format, but timely news for Americans.
I cannot buy The Times’ argument that the strip “makes felonies out of misdemeanors and lumps together the miscreants with those who are wrongdoers.”
Garry Trudeau seeks to demonstrate the existence of a pattern within the Reagan Administration of legal and ethical misconduct.
My organization, by the way, is the ultimate brunt of this series of Doonesbury jokes. We can take a gag--why can’t The Times?
LAURIE GARRETT
Los Angeles
Garrett is a reporter for National Public Radio.
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