DEAR EDITOR:
The information highway has certainly opened up a multitude of possibilities for the average person walking the streets today. There are few homes that don’t have at least one computer hooked up to the internet with total access to every subject imaginable. Like most media, information can be helpful or dangerous. That is one reason people are skeptical about e-mails, spam and viruses. In order to help us out there are web sites whose sole purpose is to tell the truth about millions of subjects.
Have you heard about snopes.com?  Many people rely on the information there. My Google search of snopes.com revealed 5,120,000 results many of which tout the veracity of the information found there. On the other hand, when I did a Google search on “snopes exposed,” here I found about 1,130,000 results, most of which gave an opposing opinion.
The first hit indicates, “Snopes Exposed.  Does the evidence show fact-checking site Snopes.com is biased and unreliable?” Interestingly enough if you were to go on Google and search for “web sites that set the record straight,” the subject of the first hit is on the search engine Google itself. Here they have produced a video and written responses trying to squelch rumors, innuendos and misrepresentations of comments made by Google’s own employees. Ever wonder about the bias that could exist of search engines themselves? Who decides which hit is listed first? 
My point is simple: from You Tube to snopes.com to all the other sources of “facts,” you can find any position you want and that position will be supported by numerous individuals and organizations. In respect to all the “facts” alluded to in the July 27 letter to the editor about the mistreatment of animals by Carson and Barnes circus, one simple fact remains; in 75 years of this family owned business running this circus never once has the USDA or any other lawful agency cited this organization with animal abuse or cruelty to animals.
Carson and Barnes was the circus Delphos had in the mid 1990s when it produced two great shows out at the Jefferson High School grounds. Folks, this is about kids, fun, and an inexpensive form of entertainment sponsored by two charitable organizations trying to remain financially strong in a very weak economy. Excuse me that was my opinion about the economy. I wonder if I could find a differing opinion on the web?
Hope to see all of you this Friday night.
Gary S. Levitt,
Elida