Airport Poll
The following is my opinion of your front-page story of Oct. 7, “Poll Shows Slim Edge for Foes of El Toro Airport.” Taking a “telephone survey of 1,002 randomly selected adults” and converting it to a story is a reflection of a strategic bias the Los Angeles Times may have to support its longtime-held position against the development of a commercial airport at El Toro.
The Times has taken an MAI (made as instructed) poll and its own MAI staff writers, extrapolated its extremely limited information, sprinkled it with well-constructed, convincing graphs, drawn conclusions and represented this to reflect the mind-set of 2.6 million people in Orange County.
It is a very sad day in the state of journalism for a newspaper to resort to such reporting and place its editorial persuasion on its front page. In my opinion, its editorial bias should be reflected on its editorial pages.
VICTOR H. JASHINSKI
Newport Beach
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