Readers critique The Post: Why is The Post promoting reckless cycling?
The choice of the photo accompanying the June 26 Metro article 'In D.C., four score and too many degrees' was careless. Of all the photographs available to illustrate the record-breaking heat, why choose a picture of recklessness?
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