Those who can, Blog. Those who can’t, Write Letters to the Editor? Not really.
In the age of Blogging, one may ask, who writes Letters to the Editors anymore? Based on many letters that are submitted to the newspapers across the world through Publishaletter, we can answer that question. They are people of all ages, from all over the world, with all different viewpoints, coming from all walks in life.
First, there are people that want to discuss politics. Second, there are people, that want to discuss more politics. Then, there are people that are passionate about discussing even more politics. Yes, people realize that there is more to life than just politics. So they write about environment, business and economy, arts, science, war and terrorism and host of other global and local issues.
Can’t they blog? Perhaps. But many probably don’t want to make the time commitment or have the technical savvy to start or maintain a blog. More importantly, a letter to the editor, gives them a chance to react directly to an editorial or commentary that they have just read in the paper. A Blog may allow them to react to a news or an event in general, but it does not give them the opportunity to address the original writer directly. No wonder, we find in our site, Bloggers that write letters to the editor.
Apparently, even those who can Blog, Write letters to the editors.
Tags: blog, Letters to the Editor
November 19th, 2009 at 9:39 am
hi,
am a student of mass communication.getting onto internet isn’t possible for me everyday since i can’t afford my computer/laptop ryt nw so newspapers are more convenient for me.so.i don’t agree to ur point that there’s no necessity of writing letters to the editors…indeed,there is bcoz media does plays a vital role among the common public residing in urban/rural areas in india still.