Talk:Letter to the editor

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[edit] Removed government examples

I removed the examples of local and national government: the terms are just as common and self-explanatory as the examples given, with the exception of "school board", which is far less common than the term "local government", since the school board model of local government isn't used in many countries. Joe D (t) 00:41, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of Text

67.162.54.244, why did you remove the text concerning some subject matter of letters? Please justify. --Gregorof 06:29, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The illusion provided by a letters page

…"in many magazines, the letters page is not quite what it appears to be." I added an External Link with the following subject matter: Man of Letters by Andrew Ferguson. Before heading to the National Review's Notes & Asides as a noteworthy counter-example (in connection with the publication of William F. Buckley's "Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription"), the Wall Street Journal piece is a rather brilliant way of describing "the illusion provided by a letters page": 'the letter-writing reader … is advised in the fine print that while the publication "welcomes letters to the editor" it nevertheless "reserves the right to edit the letters for length and style." (Meaning: Send us whatever you want; we'll print whatever we want.) At the same time, the editor gets to appear egalitarian and concerned, flattering his readers by making a show of seeming to care what they think when all he really cares about is whether they drop the $85,000 for the Lexus advertised on page 187.' Asteriks (talk) 17:57, 20 December 2007 (UTC)