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# Reader takes issue with DP
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/reader-takes-issue-with-dp-editor/
- Published: 2007-02-09T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:01:38.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Jim Bratton Santa Monica*

I just happened to stumble across an online copy of your newspaper and noticed one of your catch phrases is “A newspaper with issues” (emphasis added).

I hope that was meant to be a double (or possibly, triple) entendre.

As you’re probably aware, one way to describe a mentally disturbed individual is to say that they have “issues.” Does that mean that your paper is mentally disturbed?

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 9, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/020907.pdf?ref=smdp.com)