Letters to the Editor

Dead bear pornogrphy

To the Editor:

The Pilot needs to stop running photos of bear kills.

Recent issues of the Pilot have included photos of local hunters gloating over their bear kills. These photos are distasteful and of questionable newsworthiness. Not everyone in town wants to see the photographic evidence of someone else’s bloodlust. Even in Alaska, values are changing.

The photos of the two Kerr children and their kills are particularly disturbing. Kaleb and Nathan Kerr are apparently the young children of our new police chief, James Kerr. He should have better judgment than to flaunt to...