Diversifying Political Coverage
Your July 14 article “Pushing Politics on Young People Proves a Hard Sell” lamented those potential voters’ apathy about the political process. One reason many people--young and otherwise--are turned off by U.S. politics is because two do-nothing parties completely dominate the system here.
The Times helps perpetuate this failed system by devoting no substantial coverage to third-party candidates. Even worse, in this article you didn’t even print the correct name of Libertarian Party presidential candidate Harry Browne (whom you christened “Harry Broome”).
Newspapers that devote miles of space to ideologically bankrupt Democrats and Republicans while giving only inches to Libertarians are part of the problem your article was intended to illuminate. When doling out slivers of Libertarian Party coverage in the future, at least spell the candidate’s name correctly.
JAMES DAWSON
Tarzana
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