Sir – I think I am an average reader of The Oxford Times. If I want to read about the Middle East, its violence and its convoluted politics I buy one of the national newspapers, look at Al Jazeera or one of the other excellent sources of international news.
The sheer quantity of such stuff is anyway already deeply depressing and confusing.
If I want to read about Oxford I read The Oxford Times.
I was, therefore, puzzled and irritated to see that valuable space in your Weekend section (June 11) was taken up by a highly politicised article about the Middle East. I appreciate that it was talking about an Arab photojournalist and there is an exhibition of his work in Oxford as part of the Palestinian events However the exhibition is deeply political and so is the headline to the article and the pictures shown. If the journalist who wrote the article does not realise how political the article was then she should sit back and reflect. If she did realise what a political statement she was making on the Middle East then why was it in a newspaper that people buy to find out what is going on in Oxford?
Please avoid this kind of stuff. If you persist with it you will turn off the average reader.
M R Harper
Oxford
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