The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Friday, October 7, 1994                TAG: 9410070015
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A18  EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   24 lines

OLD VIEWS ARE NO NEWS

I have not been pleased by recent changes in the newspaper. I am particularly upset by your running year-old columns by Molly Ivins and others. Ivins is certainly not as bad a writer as Don Feder, but there is no excuse for running year-old columns when a writer goes on vacation. Just run a column by someone else.

I expect a balance of views - conservative, liberal and radical - on the editorial page. I seek substance - congressional elections, intervention in Haiti, Serb aggression in Bosnia, etc. I've had it with fluff, especially year-old fluff.

ROBERT C. INGE

Virginia Beach, Sept. 28, 1994 by CNB