DEAR ABBY'S AT IT AGAIN

[Jerry D Mead]

I'm a bit surprised, but the Reno Gazette-Journal, to which I originally wrote the "Dear Abby" letter, actually printed it, unedited, on Monday last.

The thing about writing papers (media in general) to correct misconceptions about wine and other adult beverages is that even when they don't print them, you have educated the editorial page people to be more careful in future...and then sometimes they get printed. If "we" wrote half as many letters as the anti-alcohol fanatics, we'd put a stop to a lot of misinformation.

JDM