Talk:Letter to the editor

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)

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)

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)

The Times (London)

The London Times is famous for running perennial letters over several decades. The First Cuckoo, for example, and the list of the most popular names published in their births column. Also, that it is used to publish strong opposition to an issue by high dignitaries, often with a long list of signatories (I appreciated this is covered vaguely but not specifically in the article). I should like to include this, but wonder if it belongs here or better in The Times on article (and maybe linked from here)? Of course one can't name every paper in the world, but I think the Times holds rather a special position here. I have somewhere a book entitled The First Cuckoo collecting correspondence from the first 100 years of its letters page; of course I can't find it! SimonTrew (talk) 11:07, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

What about the girls?

Imagine my surprise when I returned from Green Bay on Sunday, after watching the WIAA Girl's Basketball Games to find the victory for the Loyal team buried on page 4, while the play offs for the boy's tournament were on page 1. Just want to know where the priority is? These girls worked their way to a tremendous victory and their story was buried. I was extremely disappointed. Maybe next year you'll do better.

Judy Schroeder — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.87.92.213 (talk) 14:25, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

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Request the addition of a section to this article

Hello fellow Crowdsourcers: Someone knowledgeable could add a section to elaborate on the publication of letters to the editor. Many academic journals do no seem to have a section devoted to communications of this sort, as newspapers do. Where do letters to the editor appear in such cases? It would also be interesting to learn about the amount of discretion given to editors for rejecting letters based on certain criteria. Cheers. Eric Magar (talk) 29 December, 2022