Lifting the Veil in a Photograph of Garbo
Re “Garbo: A Veil Lifts” (April 24): The major reason I abandoned the study of journalism in college was the merciless prying into private lives that seemed necessary to create newspaper readership. To make a good story better, the privacy, the dignity, the pride and often the reputation of the story’s victim had to be exposed to the lust and idle curiosity of readers.
In publishing the painful photograph of the aged and ailing Greta Garbo, you violated the most fervent wish of the once great and incredibly beautiful actress: the wish for privacy.
ROBERT J. JOETZLI
Rancho Palos Verdes
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