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Glendale News Press, CA
May 25 2013
Op-Ed: Misconduct charges against Choi are baseless
May 24, 2013|By Paul Krekorian
The News-Press has always been an important vehicle for information in
Glendale because of its focused coverage of the local news. That's why
it was curious that the paper's Los Angeles-based opinion columnist
would use the News-Press to write a conspiracy theory attack piece
about a Los Angeles City Council race in Hollywood ("Brains, talent,
too much ambition," Ron Kaye, May 19). Apparently, your columnist
believes that if a story somehow involves Armenians, well, that must
be a good enough reason to write about it in a Glendale paper.
The writer's assumption that all Armenian-Americans are expected to
act and think and vote in one way is the kind of casual bigotry that
the people of Glendale have been working so hard to rise above. It is
disappointing that the News-Press took a step backward by publishing
this screed after so much progress has been made by so many.
In the Hollywood race, I along with many other community leaders,
Armenian and non-Armenian, endorsed John Choi, a good man who would
have been a good council member. Other Armenian Americans supported
Mitch O'Farrell, also a good man whom I'm sure will represent his
district well. How that difference in opinion is "divisive" or amounts
to a controversy is beyond me.
http://articles.glendalenewspress.com/2013-05-24/news/tn-gnp-me-guestcolumn-misconduct-charges-against-choi-are-baseless-20130524_1_misconduct-charges-news-press-paul-krekorian
From: A. Papazian
May 25 2013
Op-Ed: Misconduct charges against Choi are baseless
May 24, 2013|By Paul Krekorian
The News-Press has always been an important vehicle for information in
Glendale because of its focused coverage of the local news. That's why
it was curious that the paper's Los Angeles-based opinion columnist
would use the News-Press to write a conspiracy theory attack piece
about a Los Angeles City Council race in Hollywood ("Brains, talent,
too much ambition," Ron Kaye, May 19). Apparently, your columnist
believes that if a story somehow involves Armenians, well, that must
be a good enough reason to write about it in a Glendale paper.
The writer's assumption that all Armenian-Americans are expected to
act and think and vote in one way is the kind of casual bigotry that
the people of Glendale have been working so hard to rise above. It is
disappointing that the News-Press took a step backward by publishing
this screed after so much progress has been made by so many.
In the Hollywood race, I along with many other community leaders,
Armenian and non-Armenian, endorsed John Choi, a good man who would
have been a good council member. Other Armenian Americans supported
Mitch O'Farrell, also a good man whom I'm sure will represent his
district well. How that difference in opinion is "divisive" or amounts
to a controversy is beyond me.
http://articles.glendalenewspress.com/2013-05-24/news/tn-gnp-me-guestcolumn-misconduct-charges-against-choi-are-baseless-20130524_1_misconduct-charges-news-press-paul-krekorian
From: A. Papazian