There always seems to be a steady stream of people who write into newpapers and subjects far and wide.
Has anyone here written to a newspaper, why did you do it and what was it about?
Have you written to a newspaper?
There always seems to be a steady stream of people who write into newpapers and subjects far and wide.
Has anyone here written to a newspaper, why did you do it and what was it about?
In the land of the blind, the one-arm man is king.
I did, when I was around seventeen or so.
There was a fight at a street dance that I witnessed and the newspaper coverage of it grossly distorted the facts of the situation. I wrote to them to clarify what had happened and how their story was inaccurate. I also wrote a bit about how it only reinforced juvenile delinquency and disrespect for authority if we were blatantly and publicly lied about. They didn't publish it, but I'd also written to the community website and it went up there.
So now they are just dirt-covered English people in fur pelts with credit cards.
I haven't but I have been tempted to a number of times. From some of the correspondence in newspapers here it seems there are people who regularly write to papers, like it's their hobby or something.
I wrote an extended piece to the local paper in the wake of the USS Cole bombing. I contacted the paper first, to see if I could get one of the slots they reserved for community OP pieces. Then wrote a fairly tight piece explaining why I felt that one of the factors that had put the Cole into Aden harbor at that time was that it was a conventionally fired vessel - and it had to keep its bunkers topped off. Prior the decommissioning of the nuke cruisers, however, there would have been ships available that could have matched the capabilities that the Cole was expected to be using in the Persian Gulf without ever having to pull into port at Aden.
From there I pointed out that I felt, and still feel, that the freedom from a logistics train that the nuke cruisers had was a priceless asset that was foolishly thrown away in the wake of the collapse of the USSR.
I wrote to our local paper about an issue that enraged me at the time, but which I can't remember now! So many issues enrage me, it's hard to keep track.
Sometimes being enraged is kind of invigorating. I get a huge rush when I catch someone I disagree with being wrong.Originally posted by Sarahfeena
So now they are just dirt-covered English people in fur pelts with credit cards.
Many times. I have a reprehensible intolerance for errors of fact, and occasionally experience a point of view which I feel needs an airing. Much the same as motivates people to post on message boards, I expect.
I've written to encourage people to vote on a particular issue, to urge the defeat of a particular nominee to office, to praise an article I especially liked, and most recently I helped my son write a letter to the editor on healthcare as part of a Cub Scout requirement for citizenship. Two of my letters were (severely cut and) published in Newsweek a few years ago.
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