Whomever wrote the editorial, “A Times Apology” (BDN, June 8) is certainly broad-minded. The New York Times did not apologize, they merely made an acknowledgment that they could have done things in a better way.

Moreover, while they mentioned Michael Gordon’s name, I don’t believe they mentioned Judith Miller’s. The Bangor Daily News editors were probably pushed to make acknowledgment of this by Michael Messing’s original article in The New York Review of Books that Gordon responded to.

There is no question that Miller’s reporting on the situation in Iraq was inexcusable. She has never acknowledged this. Someone on the editorial staff of the BDN should go to Borders, or other local bookshops and get the June 24 edition of The New York Review of Books, so that they can read Messing’s current article, “The press flunks again,” and write a better editorial.

Philip Miller

Deer Isle