08/06/2008 04:07:13 AM EST
Publish Your Best Blogs Locally As Letter to the Editor
posted by matvarns
If you're like me, reading the opinion/letters to the ed. page can drive you crazy. So get in there, and put another progressive point of view on the page. We may own the blogosphere, but it sometimes seems like there's a continuous letter writing campaign being staged by conservatives.
And maybe there is, but most editorial staffs have not yet been completely outsourced to Bangalore, and they'll give your letter a fair shake (not that Bangaloris wouldn't). They can't print every submission, but keep trying. Just, as Cenk would say, Calm Down, sound level headed, put a fine polish on your favorite point, and you'll get published.
Odds are you'll be cursed by a lot of crotchety old right-wing cranks, which you can read about, and answer back to, if you register on the paper's site. But I think you'll also bolster and inspire the rational, and all too quiet, casual American politcal observer (whose head explodes when reading the letters page).
