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   From: jaap@yahoo.com   
      
   Please illuminate me how your reporters Jeremy Kohler, David   
   Hunn and Robert Patrick believed the publication of the personal   
   backgrounds of Officer Darren Wilson and his parents is relevant   
   to this case ("Police Officer Wilson keeping low profile," Aug.   
   21). Detailing their financial and marital woes does not bring   
   any value to this situation.   
      
   It would be to the credit of these reporters if I could call   
   them muckrackers, but they do not even rate that. I will let   
   these wannabe Pulitzer Prize-winning so-called journalists   
   research the background of this term. This type of article is   
   more appropriate for the National Enquirer.   
      
   And if once you reflect on publishing this information and   
   decide it truly was uncalled for, do more than publish an   
   apology. Do something meaningful: Donate to Officer Wilson's   
   support fund. And publish in the paper that you did indeed   
   donate to demonstrate your request for forgiveness.   
      
   Step up and show you are better than your comrades at KSDK, who   
   broadcast video of Officer Wilson's home in Crestwood. They   
   assumed broadcasting a half-hearted apology rectified   
   everything. Unfortunately the damage was already done.   
      
   And in the interest of fair and balanced reporting, I expect to   
   see the same information published on Michael Brown and his   
   parents. I want to see if their background information shows   
   they are pillars of the community.   
      
   R. Skurat  •  St. Charles   
      
   http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letters-to-the-   
   editor/publishing-personal-background-of-wilson-parents-was-   
   uncalled-for/article_19491163-705d-59c3-b763-4e2d3fdc54b5.html   
      
       
      
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