Jim Dodson’s essay on Sunday, Sept. 30, was outstanding.

We would be better informed and better off as a country if our national media, liberal and conservative alike, print and broadcast, could learn to report and opine as objectively as Mr. Dodson does. As always, he is well-researched and offers constructive direction and solutions to things he believes could be done better.

Hint to Dusty Rhoades: There is a way to drive home a point with passion and without resorting to name-calling. Please read JD’s column or pay him a visit in his office at PineStraw next door to the Pilot.

Michael C. Colozzi

Pinehurst and Shanghai, China