Letters to the Editor Negative column?

Enclosed are copies of a couple of mvp Capital Corp.’s weekly market bulletins by Ian McAvity. Their tables reflect significant market facts for gold investors. These I never would have suspected had I read only your Toronto Stock Exchange market columns in recent months, with their negative headlines and reporting focus.

As a subscriber only since last spring, I had expected more discriminating reporting of tse action by The Northern Miner in recent months. Instead, negativism undermining objectivity obscures significant facts for gold investors. Should not your reporter be more than simply an echo of other news media?

Favorable individual mention later in the column does not offset the psychological impact of negative headlines and first paragraphs, especially when the positive market facts noted above are omitted. I have noticed that even positive news beneath the headlines may be cast in a negative mold.

By contrast, the headlines and content of your Vancouver, Montreal and Alberta stock exchange columns address the investment concerns of Northern Miner readers.

To the extent that reporting itself becomes a factor in market behaviour, your tse column has been an ironic contradiction of much of what appears elsewhere in your pages. I don’t consider this intelligent or objective market reporting for Northern Miner readers. Nancy S. Childs, Albany, N.Y.