Paul M. Clements

To the editor,

This mornings' papers carried a list of those news stories you chose as the biggest news of the year. The fall of the Old Man of the Mountains was #2, of great interest to us here in New Hampshire, but probably not to anyone else. An escape from the state prison made the list, as did some local college rioting. Our state budget crisis was there, as was the parental notification law we passed. The other stories at least had some national import. But, again, New Hampshire's newspaper editors and reporters failed to note an event of international significance.

There was no mention on that list of the formation and first meeting of the Commission on the Status of Men. This is the first commission for men in the entire world. First of its kind anywhere. In an era where gender politics makes international headlines, first the struggle to pass this landmark bill, then it's actual signing into law, and now it's very first meeting, do not rate as highly as a jail break. It becomes very apparent that gender politics only becomes newsworthy when it supports the feminist agenda. Equality for men is not politically correct, and therefore, not newsworthy.

Paul M. Clements

Concord