Just a Gwai Lofun within prescribed limitshttp://justagwailo.com/node/2560/atom/feed2007-01-30T23:57:26-08:00NY Times Letters Publication Guidelineshttp://justagwailo.com/filter/2003/09/13/ny-times-letters-publication-guidelines2003-09-13T20:38:56-07:002007-01-30T23:57:26-08:00RichardThe letters editor of The New York Times has written on the process by which letters to the editor are published and goes through a few publication guidelines. I find that fascinating, partly because I've always considered the letters to the editor page of publications as the unofficial corrections page. It's actually more than that though: it's a place where readers sound off on what they read in the paper.
Fun anectdote: The member of the British Columbia legislature for my hometown was faced legislative recall because her assistant had sent the local newspaper letters to the editor using a false name. See the second and third paragraphs of the second part of this canoe.ca column.
]]>The letters editor of The New York Times has written on the process by which letters to the editor are published and goes through a few publication guidelines. I find that fascinating, partly because I've always considered the letters to the editor page of publications as the unofficial corrections page. It's actually more than that though: it's a place where readers sound off on what they read in the paper.
Fun anectdote: The member of the British Columbia legislature for my hometown was faced legislative recall because her assistant had sent the local newspaper letters to the editor using a false name. See the second and third paragraphs of the second part of this canoe.ca column.