Sir, - In reply to C. Bowman (March 7th) let me say that the quality of coverage accorded the Catholic Church by some newspapers has been remarked on publicly and with disapproval, e.g. by Fr. Tom Stack (an editor himself and journalist) in his column "Media Matters" in the Irish Catholic.
Fr. Commane writes: "Since January 13th I have not seen an article in The Irish Times which in any way could be considered to be anti or nasty or unfair". He may be right. But a study of newspapers beginning on January 13th for an article published on February 18th cannot be considered exhaustive. It does not deserve the subtitle "Irish newspaper coverage of the Catholic Church is neither unfair nor anti-Catholic".
Fr. Commane arranges the goal-posts to suit himself. He conveniently excludes from his analysis - the treatment of Bishop Comiskey by the press, when journalists, who hounded and falsely reported on the bishop failed to apologise when their published reports were proved to be incorrect.
Mr Bowman thinks it would be more constructive to consider the article "in a reasoned, intelligent way, I quite agree. But the first step in an intelligent consideraton of it must be to admit that it is slanted and inadequately researched. - Yours, etc.,
St. Saviours,
Upper Dorset Street,
Dublin 1.