Niagara Falls Reporter

Dear Jonathan Macready,
I volunteer at the Niagara SPCA and just read your article about pit bulls, and I was so disappointing to see the same stereotype commonly repeated again and again. No, not anything about pit bulls, but the stereotype regarding ignorant reporters chasing headlines instead of doing ACTUAL REPORTING.
Newsflash moron! Any dog can be dangerous, they’re descended FROM FREAKING WOLVES that our CRAZY ASS ANCESTORS domesticated. Dogs (all dogs not just pits) bite out of FEAR, so if you raise your dog in fear it may very well be dangerous! These types of dogs are thoroughly screened by animal behaviorists at the SPCA, but are not immediately euthanized if they can be acclimated and trained to be people friendly.
The only time the NSPCA euthanizes is when those dogs are too dangerous to adopt out, or when a dog is suffering and cannot be treated (if it can be, our vets take care of it). We don’t euthanize for the purpose of space because we don’t believe in treating animals LIKE FOOD PRODUCTS THAT EXPIRE. This is the right way to do it!
Pit bulls are not any more or less dangerous than any other dog, the only reason people believe that garbage is because idiots like you shovel it down their throats without even GOING THERE to check it out for themselves! You had every opportunity to see what type of animals they were by just going there and asking, BUT YOU DIDN’T CARE about fact checking, you just wanted to PRODUCE HEADLINES, and what sells better than fear?
Shame on you Sir! Shame on you!
Angela Burnham

The image of print media has traditionally been more thoughtful and intelligent than that of television. Not so with this fish rag, which has all the journalistic integrity of the National Enquirer. If only it had the compensation of cool images of «Elvis recently seen partying in Vegas with JFK» to offset this mediocrity…
Sadly, the paper’s «coverage» of local politics could easily mistaken for a melodramatic, juvenile reality TV show. Niagara Falls is a city which needs to continue in a consistent, intelligent direction if it is to haul itself out of the slump that has bedeviled it for decades now.
The cheap innuendo and borderline slander of the Reporter, reminiscent of lame 8^th grade playground rants, do NOT help. Fortunately, it seems that these attempts at increasing FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) are being ignored by a populace with more intelligence than this «newspaper» believes they possess.