4 Youths Arrested in Vandalism at Jewish Cemetery in New Jersey 11 Jan 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/nyregion/11graves.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=jewish+cemetery&oref=slogin
Subject: 4 Youths Arrested in Vandalism at Jewish Cemetery in New JerseyTo: letters@nytimes.com- Hide quoted text -

to the Editor: Ms. Capuzzo deserves some sort of prize for the strangest use of the passive voice ["4 Youths Arrested in Vandalism at Jewish Cemetery in New Jersey" A21, 11 January] since Nixon's "mistakes were made". If these four smashed many gravestones, proper reportage would require that the news account should report this. To write instead that they "toppled more than three-quarters of the cemetery's tombstones...many of which became broken" may be a plea bargain, but it is not a news account. Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549510 220 6948