“There are only 60 places between Ruidoso and South Carolina, and every single one of them published this letter.”
You are just being nit-picky with semantics. We already understand the language was meant to stir emotion in the reader. We are past that, but you seem to be insistent that this is a journalistic crime of the highest order while ignoring the much bigger offense. Your insistence on throwing out the good in favor of the perfect and to the benefit of the terrible does not debunk this HUGE scandal. Please get off your high horse.
I have no intentions of debunking the scandal but the cause is not helped by such over-the-top hyperbole.