To the Editor: Your story “Local politicians tangled in a Web war” (Jan.13) included a paragraph that would be helped by clarification. To explain: 1.) You referred to a website called fleecingwestmilford.com as “a political opinion site with a right-wing flavor.” Not so. Rather, fleecing westmilford.com, now thankfully shut down, had one purpose to anonymously bash Democrats with material based on innuendo and fiction rather than fact. 2.) The story also reported that fleecingwestmilford.com “was a counterpoint to WestMilfordNow,” which you referred to as “another political opinion site with leanings to the left.” Not so. In reality, WestMilfordNow for the four full years that I published it was the single best news source in the township. Its staple was news coverage, although my personal detractors would have you believe otherwise. Indeed, my reason for starting WestMilfordNow was to fill what I consider to be a news void in the township, which has been and remains underserved by the print media. Because of my professional background, WestMilfordNow also included news analysis, editorials, opinion columns, letters to the editor and other features readers might expect to find in a newspaper. Also very importantly I think, unlike the person or people responsible for fleecingwestmilford.com I signed my name to every editorial and opinion piece that I wrote for WestMilfordNow. Having spent 40-plus years in the news gathering and dissemination business, I have no hesitation telling you that I am proud of WestMilfordNow as a news product. To compare the dreadful fleecingwestmilford.com to WestMilfordNow is akin to comparing The Messenger to the Washington Post, and I say that with all due respect and awareness of the problems of producing a small weekly. A last point: Do I lean to the left? Ubetcha, I do. Indeed, I am such a Liberal Democrat that at times other Liberal Democrats pretend that they don’t know me. Martin O’Shea West Milford