To the editor:
More and more, I question the objectivity, accuracy and integrity of "news" printed in the Journal-World. One of the latest incidents occurred Saturday, Jan. 5, Section B, Page 1 under the heading Briefly.
The Associated Press report said the "county air quality ranks among the dirtiest/worst 20 percent of all U.S. counties" and within about 100 words reported an advocacy group had taken 1996 EPA data and deduced 96 percent of the air cancer risk in Douglas County resulted from mobile sources. You then printed a 1,000-word picture of KPL emissions and labeled it smoke.
I would suggest 5-year-old data, interpretation of data perhaps by a less-than-objective advocacy group, the use of a photo with "smoke" that would most likely prove to be steam on further investigation, and to use a photo of a stationary source (not a mobile source as set forth in the article) does not lead one to have great faith in many Lawrence Journal-World outputs.
Melville W. Gray,
Lawrence
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