Paper’s article was unfair to teen gymnast

I just read the article regarding the plight of gymnast Lindsay Diamond. While (the reporter) spends the first part of the article detailing the plight of this young gymnast who is caught in the middle of the Freehold Regional High School District redistricting controversy, she then closes the article with a vindictive hatchet-job criticizing the Diamond family.

Lindsay is caught between a rock and a hard place. She is a first-class gymnast who is being sent to Colts Neck, where budget constraints do not allow for a team.

(The reporter) then spends nearly half the article advocating that Lindsay should compete at the club level, or with the Marlboro (High School) team, but not a part of the team.

When told by the Diamond family that this is not what they wanted, that Lindsay wanted to compete as part of a team, (the reporter) closes the article by suggesting that Lindsay take up soccer — a brilliant suggestion. Let’s send a gymnast to compete in a new sport and risk an injury that would finish her gymnastics career.

I thought a reporter’s job was to report the news, not to editorialize, especially in such a vindictive manner. I think that the News Transcript and (the reporter) owe the Diamond family an apology.

Philip Kramer

Marlboro