Slow news day?

Date: May 12, 2004

Slow news day?

Date: May 12, 2004

Dr. Lares, I've sent several letters which have never been acknowledged or published. I assumed they weren't up to snuff. I also wonder whether the online letter submission at the HA actually works. But your last letter was so, so good, that I'm amazed it hasn't been used. Also, Dr. Hollandsworth's latest should be a guest column.

Date: May 12, 2004

I sent a letter to the Sun Herald a while back; they never even acknowledged receipt. On a positive note, I sent copies of Dr. Lares's letter to the Alumni Board and have received at least one positive reply so far.

Date: May 12, 2004

I've had several of my letters published by submitting them online (to HA, Sun Herald, CL, and Student Printz). CL will actually call you to verify that it's your letter. Don't know if they have a backlog or not...

Date: May 12, 2004

I found it difficult to get a letter into the Hattiesburg American. They only publish about 2 a day. It is easier to get into the Clarion Ledger and both C.L. and H.A. feed letters to Sun Herald. I found it easy to get letters into S.H.. Also the word limit isn't as big a problem with S.H. and C.L.
I found that the word limit prevents most letters from being published.

Date: May 12, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Newgirl
"I found it difficult to get a letter into the Hattiesburg American. They only publish about 2 a day. It is easier to get into the Clarion Ledger and both C.L. and H.A. feed letters to Sun Herald. I found it easy to get letters into S.H.. Also the word limit isn't as big a problem with S.H. and C.L.
I found that the word limit prevents most letters from being published."

A small point of correction: The C-L & HA may feed letters to each other, being Gannett papers, but the S-H is a Knight-Ridder paper & has no affiliation with the other two.