Closing of Herald Examiner Ends Colorful Newspaper Era

What a fall this has been for American culture. First, we got rid of Columbia Pictures; sold it to the Japanese. They were so pleased with the deal they came back for Rockefeller Center.

Meanwhile, back in our town, we’ve closed up KFAC, the classical music radio station, and we’ve put the second-string newspaper, the Herald Examiner, out of business.

I have an apocalyptic dread of a future where one point of view tells me what I’m supposed to think, feel, and most specifically, buy. It is an Orwellian vision of corporate-dictated culture. There will be less variety to cloud my mind with unnecessary thinking.

Who needs to worry over an occasional burned flag? It won’t be from indigenous desecration that we destroy our national icons. Either we put them out of businesses from lack of support or we sell them to the Japanese.

JO-ANN MORGAN, Los Angeles