Content doesn't meet your own standard

The Nov. 1 “Mallard Fillmore” so-called comic strip used a phrase that looks innocent in print, but has become popular with the MAGA crowd because, really, it sounds like a crude invective directed at the president of the United States.

In deciding to write to you in protest, I reviewed the information on your website regarding letters to the editor. This caught my attention: "We expect writers to be civil and straightforward. Satire is a difficult skill to master, sarcasm rarely is persuasive and, as your mother no doubt has told you, name calling is just plain rude." It was a poor decision to include this in your paper — it is rude and not civil. And, for the record, Fillmore's content is not in any way balanced by reruns of Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury. Drop them both.

Jane DeWitt

Iowa City