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Joined: 09 Jan 2005
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Location: N.W. Nevada
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Getting your letter to the editor printed!
Many of us write letters to the editor of our local newspapers, but rarely see them published.
Sometimes we live in large cities and our letters do not address an issue common to the majorities interest.
Sometimes the papers editor has a heavy bias, in favor of the other side.
When we write in support of our RKBA, the bias is almost always against us.
Here is a trick I learned a few years ago, it has worked very well for me.
All five of the newspaper's in this area are owned by one person.
Naturally they are liberal, with not much chance of even one having a more balanced editorial page than the others.
If the editor or his staff do not contact you to verify the letter is really yours, it is almost certain it is not going to be published.
What I do is simple.
1. I write a letter to each of them.
2. I wait a day or two, until I am sure the mail has delivered my letter.
3. I call the editor (but always get his secretary) then inquire if they received my letter.
They usually search for it, then confirm they have it.
This confirms for them that the letter IS mine, without my having to depend on them to call me.
4. Not sure if this gets my letter moved to the top of the stack, or maybe put in the much shorter "confirmed" pile.
But either way, doing this once resulted in my letter appearing in four of the five papers, each a day or two apart!
Nearly every time I have done this my letter has been published in at least one paper, and often in two! javascript:emoticon(' ') |
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