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* David Shaw has forsaken his good sense in his Op-Ed piece “ ‘Primary Colors’: Green for Greed” (July 19). He reviles Newsweek’s Joe Klein as a reporter who kept his identity a secret, conveniently forgetting that, in this instance, Klein is a novelist, not a reporter.
It was OK in the beginning, Shaw writes, because Klein was entitled to fear embarrassment if his novel was no good but wrong when he moved from “simply withholding his identity to blatantly lying about it.” What did Shaw expect him to do--whisper his secret to a few journalistic friends? Should he have said, “I’m sorry, I don’t recall”?
Shaw’s real frustration seems to be that he didn’t get a chance to discount Klein’s work until it was too late.
MARGARET MORELL
Buena Park
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