No time for puns

Letters to the editor - Amelia Engram died on July 1. May she rest in peace and may her parents always experience, as long as they live, only joy when they remember her.

I just discovered one of the CBC News online items, as the controversy painfully dragged on in the media, entitled "A grave concern: Family with dying daughter loses cemetery appeal."

Poor choice of words

I don't who wrote this macabre headline at CBC, but whoever wrote it needs to be fired or retrained.

If the "grave" pun was intentional (which I really doubt), I'd fire the writer.

If subconscious and unintended, I'd forgive that person with the stipulation that the writer's future work be carefully checked before publication.

Not funny

Puns have their place, but this obviously was not such a place for a pun, even unintentionally.

CBC has always had very high standards.

Let's preserve that distinction.

Aubrey Smith

Grand Falls-Windsor