Have you ever sent a letter to a newspaper?

Plenty of times.

Yes...in our city, there is, once every spring/summer (I forget which) what is called a "goods exchange day". It happens on a Saturday, and what you do is put out at the curbside or in front of your house stuff that you don't want that someone else might. It's good for people who don't want to bother with having a yard sale, and for people with no money.
I wrote a letter because I got steamed one time because someone took a perfectly good vacuum cleaner and all the parts that I left out and the NEXT week, I saw the item for sale at a garage/yard sale! My point was that the goods exchange day was for people that needed the items offered, not to load up your car with stuff that you could turn around and sell!
It was published.

I have (and had it published), but not in a very long time.

Yes. Some moron was whining about the lyrics of pop music and used Police's "Roxanne" as an example of singing about "not caring if it's right or wrong". I sent a letter saying other music, like country for example aren't exactly squeaky clean either AND there was one song (I can't remember now) that also mentioned doing things and not caring if it was right or wrong. Why target one style when so many other styles also have negative influence type lyrics? (Double standards, maybe??)

No, I thought about it but didn't. They probably wouldn't have printed it anyway. It wouldn't have been a very nice letter . There are some idiots I would like to just tell it to their face what I think about them.

Yes several times. Twice they were printed. I also e-mail letters.

I wanted to, couple of times, but I'm just way too lazy to do it.

Yes, a few times.

No, except maybe a few to my uni's newspaper. But they never bother to publish what I sent them anyway so I figured why bother. The point is moot anyway cause they've gone bust quite some time ago.

No, ecause the letters I read from non professional writers sound like idiots. I don't want to sound like an idiot anywhere other than here.

Yes I write quite a few articles to the paper. I get good feedback.

Yeah, I write fairly frequently to Mr. Roadshow at the San Jose Mercury News. He runs a column regarding driving and traffic. He has on some occasions published my questions to him.

I figured that the editor wouldn't put my letter in the paper, so i never went through with it.

I've had a number of letters in the New York Daily News and New York Times.

Yes, to the Jamaican Gleaner about my Electric Bill and they printed it in the "editors page" of the sunday paper

Does email count? I told a movie critic off once. He had some really stupid things to say about depression, art and suicide when the movie The Hours came out. I still have the clipping. Still pisses me off too. --------> Virginia Woolfe didn't kill herself because it was fashionable for artists and writers to do so. Ththththhththth!

What kind of training does being a movie critic entail? Seems any loud mouthed opinionated idiot can do that. Hmm, I wonder if there is an opening in a town near me?
Yeah, that comment about V. W. would bristle my neck hairs too.

Feedback from who, the editors? Or people who know you? Either way, that's pretty cool.

> I've had a number of letters in the New York Daily
> News and New York Times.

And which celebrity are you? Do tell!

No celebrity, but I did have my big letter-writing period. If you go here http://www.nytimes.com/ and search for "Theodore Jay Miller" (be sure to include the quotes like that), you can get eight letters I had in the New York Times from 1999 to 2002.

Well, it is mostly from the people who know me. One person even cut out an article I written, and kept it in her purse. The business even put that article on the bulletin board.

No, but I have a friend that used to do it frequently. The "letters to the editor" section is one of the very few parts of a newspaper that I'll read on those rare occasions that I read a newspaper.

Cool, I'll check them out when I get ack home. Wow, your name in quote marks *heehee*

Cool!

I've written all kinds of "Piss on you and the horse you rode in on..." letters - they just probably weren't directed at newspaper editors - more like store managers, companies I was displeased with, and such.... OH, and letters to my state and local government!!!

Yes, quite alot, but I have only kept a few of them. Over ten years ago, I destroyed some of my published letters as the ideas expressed I no longer subscribe to.

Yes, twice, and they were both published. The first was about a deputy (who's a close family friend, more like a brother) that shot and killed a guy. He had to make a decision of who's life was more important and he choose his own. There was a bunch of crap about it. So, I wrote a letter to the editor of our local newspaper expressing my opinion. The other one I didn't actually write. My brother wrote it, but I sent it in with my name. It was a letter about the local mayor's election last year. My brother couldn't send it with his name because he's a mason and mason's can't send letters to the editor. Also, it wouldn't have looked good anyhow, since he was the campaign manager for one of the candidates.

No, but I wanted to a few times though.

Yes, i did and i am glad i did, i wrote a letter to the editor.

Sexual Assault needs to be taken more seriously in Ontario's courts.It's too long of an article to print in here.

On Human Cloning.

I would just like to say that Sunday's article "Clone Wars" showed a very anti-cloning bias.
I am a supporter of cloning and believe that cloning will have a significant impact on the future of business, industry, and general labor.

Cloning relates to the issue of genetic ownership. A clone should have no independent rights. Once the clone is of age it can be sold or put to work for no wage. Instead having to hire people you can simply mass produce some clones of yourself and in 20 years put them to work.
My God, it's beautiful, can't you just see factories and fields filled with the free labor of clones?

Before flagrantly soiling your reputable newspaper with anti-cloning propaganda, you should consider both sides of the argument and accurately present how cloning can benefit mankind in the future.

Until they get it in their minds to revolt and DEMAND rights, in that case - there's more of them than us. This was learned in South, when the slaves became a bit more than restless, wanting their rights. Many a plantation owner was scared out of their wits.

Hee hee, penny you should know by now that I am a satirist. *smile*

Oh, I do. I was just commenting.

No, shame on me