Festival Reporting

This time The Times has gone too far with its skewed reporting on the L.A. Festival. Shauna Snow’s Oct. 26 article was disgraceful. Snow was supposedly reporting on a wrap-up discussion of the festival, an event I attended.

This event was nothing short of a testimonial to the beauty and transformative magic of the festival, and Snow chose, as The Times has chosen consistently, to paint a damning picture. Person after person stepped to the mike to praise the festival and talk about how it had changed their lives, yet Snow chose only to note the few remarks that festival director Peter Sellars made about how things could be done better next time.

She also censored out the remarks of the four people who damned The Times for ignoring the real festival, for writing only about budgetary problems, for publishing disgracefully ignorant reviews and for repeatedly damaging audience turnout by focusing on imagined traffic and parking problems, which will keep almost any Angeleno at home.

LINDA FRYE BURNHAM

Santa Monica