The Ottawa Citizen 

January 27, 1998, Tuesday, FINAL EDITION 

SECTION: NEWS; LETTERS; Pg. A16 

LENGTH: 228 words 

HEADLINE: Made it easy for children to explore anime 

BYLINE: M. RICHARDSON; THE OTTAWA CITIZEN 

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I am appalled at the Citizen's lack of sensitivity and good taste in depicting a 
somewhat titillating picture (and a web site address immediately below it) as an 
inducement to read your accompanying article ("Don't paint all Japanese anime 
with same sex-violence brush," Jan. 22). 

The Citizen is supposed to be a family oriented newspaper. While your newspaper 
has an undeniable right to publish the news, was it really necessary to select 
this picture and web site address to accent it? 

Surely the Citizen could have found a more tasteful depiction. 

Your newspaper is supposedly read by all members of the family. 

What child, upon seeing this particular picture, would not be tempted to explore 
the situation further? 

You have even provided the web site address to make the task easier. The web 
site owners must be laughing all the way to the bank. 

Was it your intention to deliberately promote the pornography site to children? 
If you bothered to check out the site location you so casually provided, you 
would have found that, after three clicks of the mouse, you have entered an area 
that is clearly not suitable for children to be browsing through. 

Does your newspaper care? I begin to doubt it. You are so pre-occupied in 
selling newspapers at any cost, that you have set aside your journalistic 
integrity. 

M. Richardson, Ottawa