What Does the Plain Dealer Have Against Dogs and the Dog Park?
Regina Brett’s outrageous column in the Aug. 10 Plain Dealer, which comes out against Lakewood’s dog park and slanders the entire canine species, might merely be consigned to the annals of journalistic atrocities were it not for the fact that it provides ammunition for Rocky River’s legal aggression. Suffice it to say that Brett’s column is ignorant, irresponsible, stupid (particularly but not exclusively in her attempts at humor) and slanderous. The expected result was that the Plain Dealer would have received a torrent of letters condemning the column and would have printed a few of the representative ones. However, the only letter in the P.D. about the dog park called for its demise. It was written by one Carl M. McKenna of (surprise!) Rocky River. McKenna’s letter does not mention Brett’s column, but there are surprising similarities. I will quote the entire letter except for the initial paragraph which mentions the lawsuit and the final paragraph which urges the dog park’s closing
