it’s a matter of abdicating his responsibilities, that’s all. and failing to see that in the Internet era, you simply can’t avoid to see it as what it is, the ultimate fact checker.

Aknowledging receiving a message would be a tertiary issue if only he did something about the issues raised in them. His lack of response simply means that he’s gone further down one more step: before, he didn’t do anything but at least pretended he was investigating. After his gratuitous smear (he sounded like the Reader’s Prosecutor, rather than the Reader’s Advocate as his title indicates), he not only failed to do anything: he simply ignored the messages.

To his own and his newspaper’s peril, of course; sooner or later, the issues will be impossible to avoid.

You’re completely right, and LV will go down the drain as soon as some professional organisation moves in, like … erm … News International.