During the recent presidential campaign, newspapers around the country wised up to the way they were being manipulated by political campaigns and started stating, right after quoting a campaign official lying, that it was indeed a lie. The Sun Journal needs to do that as well for letters to the editor.

I refer to Deanne Danforth’s letter, published Jan. 17, in which she stated that “The Palestinians are firing rockets into land that belongs to them. Israel acquired the land in the 1967 war.” That is false.

When Hamas fires rockets, it is firing into Israel proper, over a border that has been recognized by the United Nations in resolutions 242, 337, and others.

Knowing that simple geographical fact makes clear which is the real “rogue regime.”

Yet the Sun Journal printed her letter without checking the facts. That’s not giving a reader a voice; that’s doing a serious disservice to the entire readership.

By uncritically printing Danforth’s letter, the Sun Journal is misleading the public and keeping them from developing informed opinions. A responsible newspaper would not print falsehoods merely because they’re found in a reader’s letter.

Please institute procedures to catch such damaging falsehoods in the future.

Jonathan Cohen, Farmington