Negative Reporting

What is it with The Times San Diego Edition’s sustained animosity toward our own city’s Soviet arts festival? How come you’ve had such a nasty attitude toward this inaugural and triumphantly successful event? I read rave reviews from Los Angeles reviewers from the Los Angeles Times, yet most local San Diego reporting has downgraded, belittled and sneered at the festival, from beginning to end.

The San Diego arts community must be bursting with pride in its many outstanding achievements. The police must be encouraged having such crowds using Balboa Park, making for less crime. And all who long for international understanding and reconciliation are cheered with all this new interaction and friendliness. The thousands who saw any of the 70-plus free performances of the Georgian dancers were enthusiastic in their praise, as were other audiences everywhere.

I cannot understand why local reporting was so negative, not that the people of San Diego paid any attention to your negatives. Now I’m wondering if I should comfort myself that fewer and fewer people read newspapers?

GEORGIA TARWATER

La Jolla