TV POLITICS
One has to admire the tenacity of Lila Garrett.
She’ll be Geraldine Ferraro II before we know it. Especially with the Los Angeles Times’ readiness to print anything resembling an attack on Reagan or, in fact, this government. I’m surprised you don’t have May Company ads selling T-shirts with anti-Reagan captions.
Garrett’s simplistic reasoning that the government is censoring television is ridiculous when one sees the preponderance of anti-Administration documentaries on PBS, mostly supported by tax dollars.
Garrett, like so many of those with her political view, tries to equate the leaders of the superpowers with no reference to the fact that Russian imperialism is so obvious that even a few journalists recognize it.
The viciousness of the Soviet government is well-documented by outside sources; her lament that we can’t get something on the air to say that we as a nation are the same, is either masochistic or a genuine belief in a muddled bit of thinking.
The cliche is “the government sees Communists behind every tree.” Garrett sees Reagan behind every tree.
CHARLES ISAACS
Los Angeles
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