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Times' wet/dry coverage is biased Dear Editor, Your recent Thomasville Times article, "Cities See More Tax Revenue from Alcohol," should be a clarion call to the voters of Thomasville as to where this newspaper stands on the wet/dry issue. It is obvious your propaganda piece in last week's paper was meant to sway and persuade voters toward voting wet while veiled under the guise of unbiased journalism. I have kept my thoughts to myself over The Times' biased reporting on this issue through the months, but this latest salvo has stirred me to the point that a response is a must. The Times has only printed our C.A.A.S.T. meeting dates (and that was not without argument). You have given us no coverage of the content of our last many meetings, keeping our message from being printed in your paper. Your report on my representing C.A.A.S.T. before the Thomasville City Council concerning the alcohol ordinance a few weeks back was by far the most slanted towards "pro wet" than any other newspaper or radio report. You also have suppressed the news in that area, not even bringing up or reporting at all on the whereabouts of the separate alcohol ordinance and the wording it contained until I brought it up at that council meeting. What C.A.A.S.T. asks for is balanced, fair, reporting, not a paper promoting an agenda in hopes of a winning wet vote so that liquor advertising dollars can pour into the paper's bank account, all under the false pretense of city progress. C.A.A.S.T. requests an article on the dangers of alcohol; the traffic deaths, the broken marriages, the ruined lives, the lost time at work, the health issues all associated with this addictive drug. Where is this article? If you can't write it or won't, C.A.A.S.T. will be glad to furnish it for you complete with source information, as you require. Sincerely, Rob Moore
Chairman Citizens Against Alcohol Sales in Thomasville
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